Saloons Quotes
Selling alcohol and running saloons were against the law then in Kansas but there was no effort to enforce it anywhere in Kansas. Carrie Nation went into saloons and literally smashed the classes, signs, mirrors and furniture with an ax.
In most of American history, population has moved from the rural areas of the country to the cities. After WWII there was a movement from the rural areas to the suburbs as well as the cuties and movement from the cities to the suburbs. The assumption that the schools were not as good in the cities would be challenged by many and in the next 30 years, there was much educational reform in the cities and they had the best schools in the country. Until the movement to the suburbs, the educational attainment of city children was (and is today) much better than that of rural children. Dickernan and many others could not understand the movement to the cities because there was vice in the cities. They rarely considered the social, cultural and economic advantages of cities and generally assumed that people—especially children—could not resist the temptation of vice in the immediate vicinity.
Dodge was a hotbed of violence, gun-fighting, drinking, gambling and prostitution. At one point they had 19 saloons serving liquor for a total population of only 1200. The Governor wrote this letter to the mayor to get things under control. The mayor, also one of the town’s successful business men, was doing very well and was apposed to changing the status quo. He wrote a return letter {587195} to the mayor to get things under control. The mayor, also one of the town’s successful business men, was doing very well and was apposed to changing the status quo. He wrote this return letter trying to convince the governor to let him deal with things. Others accused him of being in cahoots with the violent element of town and an apologist for the worst elements of the community.
Sunday was a leading prohibitionist.
William Ashley Sunday. Sunday and many other prohibitionists then believed that mental retardation was caused by parents who drank alcohol extensively. What we know today is that a pregnant woman drinking can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and affect the intellect of the fetus when growing up. It was true that the alcohol industry had undue influence in many states. However, with prohibition, organized crime then gained even more influence upon state and local government, and America had gone from bad to worse.
This was a very important historical quotation. In 1928 Al Smith, the Governor of New York, was the Democratic Candidate for President. He was the first Roman Catholic to run for the Presidency for a major party. He narrowly lost and the anti-Catholic sentiment of much of the country was one of the major reasons, Jones was one of the many Protestant religious leaders who were virulently opposed to a Roman Catholic in the White House. The analogy of a saloon on every corner was very important at the time as the United States had Prohibition, and alcohol had been Jones’ major issue beore then. The result was the election of Herbert Hoover and the subsequent Great Depression.
