Living Through
the First Two
Years of Prohibition

After living under Prohibition for two years a journalist for The New York Times collected numerous facts and concerns on the matter of Prohibition and the political battles between Wets and Drys..

“Smuggling overseas does not appear to be difficult to handle. I have reports of three vessels detected on the east coast within the last few weeks. Some passengers may get through at the customs with a bottle or two and some seamen also. On the Pacific seaboard, the Chinese are said to have imported considerable quantities of cunningly packed bottles, labeled with weirdest mottos. Sme private yachts have been suspected and searched. And, at Washington, the embassies and legations, permitted by diplomatic privilege to be wet, are accused, from time to time, of exuding superfluous moisture. But on the whole, smuggling overseas is negligible compared with possible smuggling overland frontiers so extensive as that of Mexico and Canada.”