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Golden History Moment
77 Years Ago
The September 28, 1945 Colorado Transcript featured one in a long-running series called “The Old Judge Says….” The Judge was always having folksy conversations with his fellow townsfolk, explaining the finer points of government policy. Curiously, his conversations always revolved around what a dumb idea prohibition had been. Here’s an example:
Judge, would you mind tellin’ Charlie here what you told me the other night walkin’ home from lodge. I can’t word it just the way you did.
Sure thing, Tim. Here’s what I told him, Charlie. There’s no such thing as votin’ a nation, a state, a county, or even a community dry. We had proof enough of that during our 13 years of prohibition. What you really vote for is whether liquor is going to be produced legally or illegally…whether the community is going to get needed taxes for schools, hospitals, and the like, or whether this money is going to go to gangsters and bootleggers. That’s the answer, boys…simple as A-B-C.
In other conversations, he concluded that
It all goes to prove what I’ve said time and time again, Chet…prohibition does not prohibit. Same thing happens every time…as soon as legal liquor is voted out, bootleg liquor with its crime and corruption moves right in.
and
It’s not hard to figure out. As soon as the distillers stopped making whiskey and devoted their entire facilities to the production of industrial alcohol for the Government…the racketeers muscled in again.
Careful scrutiny of the tiny message printed beneath each cartoon revealed that the series was sponsored by the Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc. I guess they were worried that Prohibition might make a comeback.
That same issue of the paper included another apparent “column” entitled “From Where I Sit…by Joe Marsh.” That one propounded the importance of tolerance so that everyone gets along with everyone else. One of things people should tolerate is “Pa” enjoying “a mellow glass of beer or two.” That one said “Copyright, 1944, Brewing Industry Foundation.”
Both of these pseudo-newspaper columns were designed to discourage any return to Prohibition. In researching these items, I came across a good article on the Denver Public Library’s website: The Beverage of Moderation.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
