The End
Alcohol had become a controversy between the Dries and the Wets in the United States, which lead to the ratification of the 18th amendment. The Dries saw society as an unwelcoming and unsafe environment and stated that the prohibition of alcohol would bring good outcomes. Many of the anti-prohibitionists or the “Wets” knew that drinking alcohol was an everyday life routine that had not been taken advantage of. In 1929, after the 18th amendment had been ratified, more than 150 women assembled to organize a New Jersey division of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform. For women who wished to be a member of the division, they were required the “signing of an enrollment blank” which was “because I believe that national prohibition has incited crime and increased lawlessness, hypocrisy and corruption, because I believe that the cause of real temperance has been retarded and that sumptuary laws have no place in the Federal Constitution...”. (1) The negative effects brought by prohibition were certainly affecting everyone, which had organized crime at the top of the list, with Al Capone as one of the leaders of the organized crime. In 1931, the Quakers were still seeing improvements and claimed that they had a “greater respect” for the 18th amendment. (2) Soon enough, alcohol prohibition ended on December 5, 1922 with the ratification of the twenty-first amendment.
(1) “Jersey Women Join War on Prohibition” The New York Times, June 20, 1929. http://search.proquest.com/docview/104857209?accountid=10351(Accessed March 28, 2013)
(2) “Dry Law Benefits Seen by Quakers” New York Times, April 9, 1931. http://search.proquest.com/docview/99449891?accountid=10351(Accessed March 28, 2013)
(2) “Dry Law Benefits Seen by Quakers” New York Times, April 9, 1931. http://search.proquest.com/docview/99449891?accountid=10351(Accessed March 28, 2013)