Prohibitions which are taken too lightly

At the national level, though, Prohibition took a long time to get off the ground, and the Maine law was repealed only five years later. Many activists felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands: a good example was the ferocious evangelical Christian Carrie Nation, who stood almost 6ft tall. As Mrs Nation readily accepted, she had a daunting appearance: she once compared herself to a "bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn't like".

Her activities ranged from serenading the patrons of Kansas saloons to smashing up bars with rocks and hatchets, often accompanied by dozens of hymn-singing women. Arrested more than 30 times before her death in , she found the money for her fines from the sale of souvenir hatchets. By the time of Carrie Nation's death, though, the campaign for Prohibition was gathering momentum.

This was the heyday of progressive reform: to a generation of Protestant reformers, using the power of the state to regulate the anarchy of the industrial city and improve the lot of ordinary workers seemed only natural and reasonable. Outlawing alcohol, which they associated with disease and disorder, fitted nicely into this agenda.

As early as , some 26 out of 48 states were already dry, and once the United States entered the first world war, Prohibition became identified with patriotism — not least because German Americans, with their brewing traditions, were often against it.

By December , with the war in full swing, both houses of Congress had approved a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol. In January , the Eighteenth Amendment had been ratified by 36 states, and that October, the Volstead Act — passed over President Woodrow Wilson's attempted veto — gave the federal authorities the power to stop the manufacture, sale or importation of "intoxicating liquor".

Now prohibition was law. Unfortunately for its advocates, however, the federal government was never really equipped to enforce it. By the time the Volstead Act came into force, the heyday of progressive reform had already passed. The Republican presidents of the s, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, were both small-government conservatives, who shrank from high spending and federal intervention.

Almost incredibly, only 1, federal agents were given the job of enforcing Prohibition — that is, about 30 for every state in the union. On top of that, the new regime never had unanimous public support, while neighbouring countries remained defiantly wet.

Neither Mexico nor Canada had any intention of clamping down on breweries and distilleries near the American border; indeed, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Winston Churchill, thought that Prohibition was "an affront to the whole history of mankind".

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