William Randolph Hearst — "I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty …"

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
William Randolph Hearst — William Randolph Hearst Modern · Media mogul, yellow journalism

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Date: Approx. 1920s-1930s

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