“Prohibition is not the Problem”

For many Americans in the 1930’s, the temperance movement was the least of their worries. American was on the brink of total economic collapse and people were much more worried about how they were going to put food on the table. Many farmers in Washington Missouri were facing the same agriculture hardships that were sweeping over the nation. With their whole livelihood on the line, it’s hard to be concerned about prohibition. However, many political figures were running with anti-prohibition as there main platform. This seemed shallow to Missourians who simply wanted to hear about how they were going to fix this economic disaster.

This article takes yet another angle at how prohibition and the temperance movement were counter-productive in America. As a class, we already read about how it lead to a revival in the KKK as well as the near destruction of the beer and winery industries. It this article, it mainly looks at prohibition as a political distraction when Americas were in dire need of real help.