![]() An echo of this persists in America’s current strain of prohibition. The Ku Klux Klan said that “nigger gin” was the main reason that oppressed black people were prone to rebellion, and if you banned alcohol, they would become quiescent. Of course, there were more obviously sinister proponents of Prohibition too, pressing progressives into weird alliances. Within 10 days, only four of the original 13 remained, and the rebellion was spreading across the country. ![]() ![]() This prayer-athon then moved around to every alcohol-seller in the town. They worked in six-hour prayer shifts on the streets until the saloonkeeper finally appeared, head bowed, and agreed to shut it down. ![]() They marched as one to the nearest bar, where they all sank to their knees and prayed for the soul of its owner. A huge crowd of women cheered: They believed their husbands were squandering their wages at the saloon. ![]() One Sunday in 1874, Eliza Thompson-a mother to eight children, who had never spoken out on any public issue before-stood before the crowds at her church and announced that America would never be free or godly until the last whiskey bottle was emptied onto the dry earth. It’s not hard to see how this fug of liquor caused problems, as well as pleasure-and the backlash was launched by a furious housewife from a small town in Ohio. ![]()
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