Prohibition in Missouri

I picked an article that I found in Shelby County, written in 1918, about defeating prohibition. A huge part of it is about living in a democracy, and the prohibition would be undemocratic and invade the Bill of Rights, and many other countries have found other ways of handling liquor sales outside of a prohibition of alcohol. It also talks about revenue of liquor sales in the state of Missouri, which turns out to be quite a large number. Many stores and shops would go out of business because of the prohibition which is an argument made in this article. This article is very anti-prohibition and provides good reasons on having hat view that are quite convincing. In A Century Ago: Prohibition in Missouri, the article written by Barb Brueggeman speaks on ways that people avoided prohibition. She talks about Kansas City becoming a huge hooch town that was open “24/7”. There were those in power that refused to enforce the ban on alcohol which allowed for organized crime to expand leading to shootings, but many would travel to towns like Kansas City to drink alcohol and evade the prohibition. In contrast, World War 1 Played Key Role in Passage of Prohibition written by Claire White talks about those who support the prohibition, and how the pro-prohibitioners were likely to be racist and xenophobic, associating Germans and Irish with the high amount of alcohol that was drank by people. She also writes about how there were temperance societies that would later push for state-level prohibition, and this ban caused so much controversy among many.