(TEMPERANCE) The Home vs The Saloon Vote to Protect the Chil

Sale 2271 - Lot 518

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(TEMPERANCE.) The Home vs The Saloon. Vote to Protect the Children. Pro-prohibition poster, depicts a group of adorable black "waifs." The potential victims of the "Demon Drink." 16-7/8 x 12 inches; archivally conserved and backed with japan paper. Np, circa 1919

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A poster urging people to vote for the Volstead Act, better known as the 18th Amendment (1920), which brought on the era of Prohibition. A product of the efforts of the Anti-Saloon League, basically a group of women from predominantly Protestant Churches. The ASL pushed aside the Women's Christian Temperance League that had been more active in the 19th century. The act of prohibiting the consumption of alcohol brought on an era of alcoholic excess the likes of which had never before been seen. Will Rogers said: "Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth." Prohibition ended in 1933.