A toast to President Joe
And why don't Mormons have beards anymore?The Tribune's Sean Means offers a lively tale of Mormon Utah's role, led by President Joseph F. Smith, in the repeal of Prohibition 75 years ago.
A headline in the London Evening News says it all:
Prohibition Is Dead! Mormons Killed It! Whoopee! Happy Days Are Here Again!Of course the Noble Experiment, as the 21st Amendment was known, lead to Utah's on-going experiment in socialism (and hypocrisy) — state-run liquor stores.
Salt Lake Magazine, with the help of Ken Sanders, explores Utah's colorful history of drinking and booze making. For pilgrimage purposes, Sanders includes the sites of Utah's early breweries and distilleries including the Hot Springs Brewery Hotel, near Point of the Mountain Prison that was run by Brigham Young's hit man, Orrin Porter Rockwell.
2 Comments:
18th Amendment, man. If you want to be different from the O'Reilly/Hannity/Buttars mafia, you gotta get the facts straight (sigh)
Well, you have it right, it is the eighteenth amendment, but, Utah was also the 36th (and therefore legitimizing) state to ratify the 21st, which brought alcohol back.. sort of...
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