1930 headline newspaper Campaign for the REPEAL of PROHIBITION begins

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1930 headline newspaper with front-page bold banner headline and long detailed article on a possible repeal of the REPEAL of PROHIBITION being SOUGHT on the tenth Anniversary of the EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT, which created PROHIBITION!!
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Baltimore News
(Md) dated January 16, 1930 with a front-page banner headline and detailed article on the proposal by WISCONSIN SENATOR JOHN BLAINE, who eventually authored the 21st amendment to the CONSTITUTION, which repealed PROHIBITION.
Prohibition focused on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages; however, exceptions were made for medicinal and religious uses. Alcohol consumption was never illegal under federal law. Nationwide Prohibition did not begin in the United States until January 1920, when the
Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
went into effect. The 18th amendment was ratified in 1919, and was repealed in December, 1933, with the ratification of the
Twenty-first Amendment
.
Concern over excessive alcohol consumption began during the American colonial era, when fines were imposed for drunken behavior and for selling liquor without a license.
In the eighteenth century, when drinking was a part of everyday American life,
Protestant
religious groups, especially the
Methodists
, and health reformers, including
Benjamin Rush
and others, urged Americans to curb their drinking habits for moral and health reasons. In particular, Benjamin Rush believed Americans were drinking hard spirits in excess, so he created "A Moral and Physical Thermometer," displaying the progression of behaviors caused by the consumption of various alcohols. By the 1840s the
temperance movement
was actively encouraging individuals to reduce alcohol consumption.
Music
(a completely new genre) was composed and performed in support of the efforts, both in social contexts and in response to state legislation attempts to regulate alcohol. Many took a pledge of total abstinence (teetotalism) from drinking distilled liquor as well as beer and wine. Prohibition remained a major reform movement from the 1840s until the 1920s, when nationwide prohibition went into effect, and was supported by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the
Methodists
,
Baptists
,
Presbyterians
,
Disciples of Christ
, and
Congregationalists
.
Kansas
and
Maine
were early adopters of statewide prohibition. Following passage of the
Maine law
,
Delaware
,
Ohio
,
Illinois
,
Rhode Island
,
Minnesota
,
Massachusetts
,
Connecticut
,
Pennsylvania
, and
New York
, among others, soon passed statewide prohibition legislation; however, a number of these laws were overturned.
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