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(Ed. Note: The following is a verbatim record from a full page advertisement in the Cornell Sun. A picture of a unshaven, filthy, albeit jovial bum smiling over a glass of beer headed the page. A 180-bold "Prohibition" smacked the eye from the center of the advt.)
Ten years of temperance.
Our great and noble experiment is a success
Drinkeries have disappeared
Drunkenes is unknown
Alcoholism has been annihilated
The beer barons are bankrupt.
The dream of the WCTC is realized
The chocolate soda has become our national drink.
Our jails are deserted.
Politics has been purified
We lead the world in morality
Law and order prevail in all our land.
No more does beer defile Cayuga's blue when the Spring zephyrs bless our land.
No more does the aroma of malt beverage permeate our Halls of Learning.
No more do Saturday night ale orgies stain the escutcheon of our collegiate honor.
No more does ribald rendition of Sweet Adeline, born of beer, arrest our slumbers.
No more do suds stain student banquet boards.
No more does seductive wine pollute the repasts of our apostles of erudition.
No! Thank God, ten years ago our moral consciousness awakened to destroy these perfidious practices, giving us
BATH-TUB GIN AND FIVE MINUTE WHISKY.
Some facts about Prohibition
The estimated annual cost of Prohibition enforcement and loss of revenue is $936,000,000.
A billion dollars for temperance?
What of it?
Our people are protected from alcohol.
The government of Ontario made millions last year from the sale of intoxicants.
Let them have their ill gotten coin.
Temperance is our war cry.
We are producing a super race.
The sins of the fathers are not being visited upon the sons.
What is a rye highball?
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