Anticipating Repeal and the
New Epoch

“The best we can say is that the question of liquor regulation – a thorn intermittently in the side of our politics since the 1840s – seems certain to be returned to the states. Which is at once an advance over the current arrangement and harking back to the troublesome pre-prohibition days when John Barleycorn was a symbol of contention throughout the Republic…One fact seems certain: We haven’t yet settled the issue of how and when, if at all, man shall enjoy the traditional pleasures of the glass.”