With many glasses shown on the table provides us with the information that this has happened once too many times, with the information we already know about why they want the ban of alcohol backs this up, by showing that this has happened many a times.
There is a sense in lack of loyalty in this poster and the anti-saloon league conveyed this across by using the till, man, mother and child to reveal this, it provides the information that the man holding the weekly wages has more loyalty towards the saloon before his family and has further more shown another reason why the saloon league is opposed against the sale of alcohol.
The poster has headed the passage below he poster as ‘slaves of the saloon.’ From the use of the term slaves it does not give the impression that the anti-saloon league see the men as punters but as slaves. This suggests from the meaning of the word ‘slave’ that the men are owned and are working for the bar keeper, a person dependant on or controlled by something; a mechanism directly controlled by another. With this it gives us the sense that these men can not see how much control these saloons have upon these men, and this is why the league opposes this system of ‘slavery’ and ‘greed.’
It also provides us with a comparison to make sure the readers know what they mean when they say alcohol is to be banned:
‘The liquor traffic, like the slave trade or piracy. Cannot be mended, and therefore must be actually ended.’
It helps us realize that it is no good mending the system as it will not help and therefore should be banned altogether. This is another reason why the anti-saloon league believe alcohol should be abolished altogether.
What reasons for prohibition, apart from those given in Source A, are given in sources B and C?
The anti-saloon league and the women’s Christian Temperance union believe that alcohol is ‘ungodly,’ by this they mean irreligious; wicked or unreasonably inconvenient. We can see that it was seen as a temptation that led to evil and they believed it was their duty to take away this temptation, we have seen this in source B as they have described alcohol as ‘evil and wasteful.’
Many Protestants promoted prohibition and believed that grain should be banned, ‘grain used for brewing, was needed for food during the First World War.’ From this it reveals that they believed people could benefit more from food than drink, as I know many men fought in the War against Germany. Apart from the fact that it was believed it made these men ill, it is shown that soldiers were getting too drunk and could maybe not able to fire straight, for this reason prohibition was said to be patriotic and would help the war effort and defeat Germany. They also saw as it as an imposed trait in America as ‘many German immigrants in the USA worked in the brewing industry,’ from this people felt Americas pride and uniqueness was al a scam. Obviously it was not helping the American industry as they believed it could lead to absenteeism and reduced production in factories, industry therefore supported prohibition as they thought it would make them more money.
From the sources I can also see that they wanted prohibition because the ‘nations workers- which is to say their employees- would be more productive if beer and liquor could be withheld from hem. With this hey mean hat many employees would turn up to work hung over and they believed with prohibition this would not happen and many workers would work better if they did not come into work hung over or even drunk.
