. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. thanone-half the area of the United States has gone dry; that is, every minutemore than 150 acres of United States territory goes prohibition! The history of temperance reforms has been one of ups and downs;it has been consistent only in failure; waves of emotionalism have broughtabout prohibition for a time, but after the excitement had died away thezeal of the reformers has abated, and soon the liquor people have foundthemselves doing business again, their position apparently the stron
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. thanone-half the area of the United States has gone dry; that is, every minutemore than 150 acres of United States territory goes prohibition! The history of temperance reforms has been one of ups and downs;it has been consistent only in failure; waves of emotionalism have broughtabout prohibition for a time, but after the excitement had died away thezeal of the reformers has abated, and soon the liquor people have foundthemselves doing business again, their position apparently the stronger be-cause of this reaction. Many a grandparent of today remembers the Drunken Period ofAmerican history that began after the Revolution and continued for twogenerations. Everybody drank. The annual consumption of malt andalcoholic liquors was fifty quarts to the family, or about double what it isnow. In 1808, a New Yorker named Clark (Billy James Clark, M. D.)persuaded some forty friends to eschew liquor and confine their atten-tions to beer alone. Thus was formed the first known temperance — fc — o . u u £ 5 c u •-» o •— ttJ o ££
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