The American issue., 1919-08-15
The Dying Days Of the Liquor Serpent
BY Duncan c. Miner

July l. 1919 the great dates history because
that day the traffic alcoholic liquor beverage became an
outlaw in the United States
Eighteenth Amendment
National Constitution will be accounted of the greatest
steps in the moral and physical progress of mankind
The will of the nation embodied in organic law has been
expressed and believe the time will when shall
again have the licensed sale of intoxicating liquor The liquor
long entenched in human appetite and greedy aarce
and long mighty politics and long protected and
by law will surrender long it buy the
the brains of cunning lawyers who will not hesitate in efforts
corrupt legislatures and courts and try to confuse the minds OF the
people.
Indians saying "a serpent is its full
length dying" desperation liquor powers
their dying days resort extreme to proong the
life of John Baeycorn
There many and powerful popular superstons to the
value and need of alcoholic liquors These superons die hard
but they dying There will be need of much agitation and edu
cation to complete the work of Prohibition.
In European there preserved curiosites
chimes used in the torture of human beings.
In New Orleans there has been exhibition the auction block
where and sold chae 1t is difficult see
how there preserved any permanent memorials Of the nstt
ons that under authority of law dealt poisonous liquors the
people.
Dsleres will be kept make alcohol for mechanical pur
Breweries may be for the making OF nonntox
eating drinks One hundred and fifty John Wesley called
liquor sellers "Posoner Our literature abounds refer
drink that will be the coming days
There will be- the history reform carried for
than century under the leadership of the church OF Christ
On the night of June &c. 1919 the present writer and other
dy the loop of Chicago witness the closing OF the
looms by order of the few minutes before midnight
the notorious saloon the city the Working
Exchange Clark Street by Alderman
Michael Kenna (IInky Dnk,)
Midnight At Fnky Dnks
large crowd the bar drinking what has been advertised
widely the largest sooners of beer Chicago large number
of the drinkers samples the finished product of the saloon
oated edeed and redfaced in ragged clothes maudn talk
about personal liberty and denouncng Prohibition.
The police did not attempt haul to the stations many of the
drunken sitting the curbs lying pavements
them There young drunk but able
The police ignored the who of the bars
and drank with the drunken than have
before time The law against selling uni
form degaded and number of soldiers and sailors hamed
uniforms by their drunkenness led several disgraeu
The pifu awful sight that of young people well
dressed under the influence of liquor and young girl drunk
she able without help and had almost be lifted
into the
few minutes before midnight there pounding the bar
voice shouted Get boys close twelve the
the crowd pushed the sidewalk and the doors
their had been unlocked long
keys lost.
The closing and locking of the saloon doors of
triumphant ymbozng the locking of the liquor power
The day Alderman Kenna said he had this saloon for
years had sold 175oO barrels of beer Who
what the paid for that beer wongmens families?