The man is handing over a bag labelled week’s wages to the happy bartender, which shows how he spends all of his money on alcohol which leaves him with nothing left for food.
In the corner of the image there is a picture of a women presumably the wife with her head on the table which shows that this happens regularly and next to her a small child is holding an empty bowl which they want to be filled with food. The child is shown to use empathy to get to touch the fathers and make them want prohibition to be enforced. Underneath the child on the floor is a repossession notice showing they are going to lose their house because of alcohol.
At the bottom of the source it says “slaves of the saloon” which suggests that the people who go are addicted to alcohol. This also links back to source C when the “evils of alcohol” are mentioned. In the background of the source there is a group of men gambling which shows how alcohol causes lawlessness and from my own knowledge I know that other illegal activities happen in saloons such as prostitution.
Source D is also for prohibition. It shows two children, one explaining to her younger brother that their father is in the saloon which is why they can not have the necessities of life. The girl is explaining that they can’t ever have food or clothes because their father spends all his money in saloons. The children also have no parental figure which makes us think that maybe their mother is also in the saloon or affected by alcohol. This makes us empathise for the children as we do in source C.
From my own knowledge I know that the anti-saloon league made these in 1915 which makes it a primary source.
The saloon doors are shown which could act as a barrier between the family, meaning as long as alcohol is around the family are not going to be together and the children are going to suffer.
The children also look malnourished as if they hadn’t eaten for a while which they probably haven’t because of their dad spending all their money on alcohol. This makes us feel angry towards “daddy”.
