prohibition course work section C

failure although he believed and hoped it would be enforced and would work. Rockefeller also realises that prohibition was a failure, shown by when it says “reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the case” talking about prohibition in this statement. Rockefeller is sounds very unsupportive about his comments in parts of the source about prohibition. He also mentions the great increase in crime due to prohibition.                                                   The source also recognizes that people will still want to drink, show by the quote “many of our best citizens have openly ignored prohibition” this shows that although some people weren’t criminals and law breakers, they didn’t take prohibition seriously and just kept on drinking regardless. This is shown once more where it says “respect for the law has been greatly lessened” which proves the point even more. This source has a mixed opinion on prohibition. He thinks it should have worked but it didn’t and then he realises why it didn’t and what the consequences were.                                      But on the other hand source F has hardly any reasons why prohibition wouldn’t work. The author is obviously for prohibition, I think this because of many reasons. Firstly because this source was written before prohibition so the author wouldn’t know what prohibition was like and he wasn’t aware of the ciaos and violence that it would cause. Kramer really thought that America could pull of prohibition, show by “The law will be obeyed in cites” this is very hopeful, and the word will is very strong in this context showing that John F Kramer truly believes that prohibition will work.   I think very Kramer’s thoughts are unrealistic and which makes them unreliable, for example where it says “his job is to enforce prohibition” how could only 1200 agents enforce prohibition throughout the whole of America. Also the source is strong willed the quote “it will be enforced”, this is where is Kramer is showing strong views, even though the police had none, for example, the police couldn’t actually stop people drinking because it wasn’t illegal to drink which seems quite stupid, which says ”the law says that liquor must not be manufactured. We shall see that it is not. Nor sold, nor given away” this is a powerful statement but it doesn’t say it is illegal to drink alcohol, only to sell, make, and give away. To conclude I think that source E is more reliable, because it understands that prohibition did fail and can look back on prohibition using hindsight whereas source F is very hopeful and doesn’t actually state why prohibition has or will work, it just says they will enforce it.