TyTanium
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Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Purported to be by Abe Lincoln (but probably not).
Unionrdr;You'd think so,yeah. Maybe over all these decades,it's just the quest & not the ideals behind it. Like they just got so lost in how can we? that they haven't thought about why should we?...
What I find more insulting is that the AP feels their readers are so stupid they had to print this sentence:
"The cookout menu features brats, a local sausage whose name is pronounced "brahts," "
lol...the president of WCTU is named Wert...anybody find this ironic?
Well, maybe not, since wort is non alcoholic
As an aside, I just love that people outside Midwest seem to need to have the word brat defined for them. Pronounced "brahts."
So, I'm guessing that temperance unions are kind of like Westboro Baptist Church - every once in a while they rear their heads to make an outlandish statement that gets picked up by bored reporters and spun into a controversy that provides fodder for pundits to yak about in lieu of real news stories.
So, I'm guessing that temperance unions are kind of like Westboro Baptist Church - every once in a while they rear their heads to make an outlandish statement that gets picked up by bored reporters and spun into a controversy that provides fodder for pundits to yak about in lieu of real news stories.
...I'd guess most members of the WCTU have had their lives touched by alcohol abuse in some awful way (family alcoholics, DUI accidents, etc)...
I think the AP reporter was just fishing for a story here...the quotes sound totally off-the-cuff...
You know, growing up in California I have never met anyone who hadn't heard of and didn't know how to pronounce brats. I think the AP just doesn't think too highly of their readers.
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