From a Prohibition exhibit at St. Louis' Old Courthouse. Reads:
The night before it went into effect, everybody had a big party on account of it being the last chance to get boiled. Now there's a group of wilful men that keeps hollering that the law ain't no good and please modify it so as to give us light wines and beer, but the general attitude in regards to this plea is, as revealed by a personal souse-to-souse canvas, who and the hell would drink them?
Ring Lardner
