STATEMENTS ABOUT PROHIBITION IN 1928If these sentences sound familiar, it is because they are. The sinister reminder of prohibition echoes from the past into the present. The object of prohibition has changed. The substance has not.
From: "The [Nazarene] Preacher's Magazine," June, 1928, Edited by J. B. Chapman
Prohibition is here to Stay"My view, as expressed to you three years ago, has not changed. Prohibition is a boon to women and children." -- WILLIAM T. FOSTER, PH.D., LL.D.
"Prohibition will prevail in spite of the law's defiance in some parts of the country." -- Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company.
"Train operation could not be made safe if the employees were permitted to use intoxicating beverages." -- Northern Pacific Railway Company.
"The country will never go back to licensed selling of liquor in any form." -- The Illinois National Bank.
"Prohibition has come to stay. It is the greatest forward step ever taken." -- JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG, M. D., The Battle Creek Sanitarium.
"Experience has shown less poverty, crime and lawlessness, and more thrift, domestic happiness and right living than under high license and the saloon." -- W. I. THOMPSON, formerly attorney general of Nebraska.
"Yes, I am just as strongly in favor of prohibition as ever." -- W. H. METZLER, Dean, New York State College for Teachers.
"One of the greatest surgeons says if prohibition should fail, our nation would be morally lost." -- HOWARD A. KELLY, M. D., Baltimore, Md.
"Prohibition is a splendid thing for the country's good, and progress is being made in the law's enforcement." -- Baker-Vawter Company.
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