[Roscoe]

the Constitution which set up a whole new ballgame

Now you're begging that question too?

[philman_36]

Now you're begging that question too?
Begging what question?

[philman_36]

And isn't it ironic that Howard Hyde Russell was a "reformed" drinker...
Early Years of the Anti-Saloon League
Snip...Now a reformed drinker, he decided to change careers and become a minister in the Congregational Church.
Reformed into what?

[philman_36]

I rather like the "Bone Dry" and "Walking the Plank" cartoons.
A never ending issue.

[philman_36]

Georgia
Snip...Georgia was the only colony of the thirteen that received financial aid by a vote of Parliament -- the only one in the planting of which the British government, as such, took a part. The colony differed from all others also in prohibiting slavery and the importation of intoxicating liquors. The settlers were to have their land free of rent for ten years, but they could take no part in the government. The trustees made all the laws; but this arrangment was not intended to be permanent; at the close of the proprietary period the colony was to pass to the control of the Crown.
Snip...Oglethorpe was governor of Georgia for twelve years when he returned to England. In four respects the settlers were greatly dissatisfied. They wanted rum, they wanted slaves, they greatly desired to take a hand in their own government, and they were not content with the land system, which gave each settler but a small farm that must descend in the male line. In all these points the people won. On account of these restrictions the colony grew but slowly and at the end of eighteen years scarcely a thousand families had settled in Georgia. The people claimed that the prohibition of liquors drove the West India trade away from them and at length the prohibition was withdrawn.
(not the complete paragraph...see site)

[philman_36]

Well? Beg that question!