Source A + B are written sources after prohibition and was about why and when prohibition was brought in.  They do not say prohibition was bound to fail.  Source A commentson the consequence of the 18th Amendment and the increase of crime,which

Source E is a wealthy industrialist and its only one persons opinion and could be biased.  He has a broader picture of the situation, as he is a businessman and has greater knowledge.  He notices people are late or not attending work because they are drunk and he is losing profit.  He supports the idea of prohibition at the begging but he soon turns his mind due to his workers as there were probably missing work because they were drunk.  Source F is the 1st prohibition commissioner and his job was to enforce prohibition.  He could be biased and the speech is used as propaganda.  His comment is ‘prohibition will work’ which he thinks it will be successful.

Source G + H are both static’s about alcohol.  Source G statistics are provided by Federal Government but it is incomplete information as there is no total amount of illegal stills and gallons of spirits.  The numbers purely suggest that agents are more successful, but show more alcohol is being produced.  It shows prohibition is bound to fail, as people are still willing to break the law.  They cannot be trusted as the federal agents are breaking the law.  They were probably paid to change the statistics to suit the gang lords so they would get caught by the police and be arrested.  Source H is statistics in Philadelphia by a police force.  These also cannot be trusted as there was a lot of corruption in the police department.  If you accepted the figures it would show prohibition was failing as more people were drinking.  The statistics refer to the effects of alcohol not the arrests for the transport of alcohol.

Source I is a cartoon made for a newspaper/magazine and its an editor’s opinion probably in the 1920’s, well into prohibition.  He refers to the backhander’s (giving bribes) to a range of people like clerks to people in the government.  This show corruption is happening and also shows that prohibition is bound to fail because they were not doing their job properly.  Also this could be the editors point of view and would backup source J but if the editor used that picture too make more then it would not support source J.  Source J contrasts with source I and is a policeman in Chicago in the 1920’s.  It is 1st hand evidence and is his own opinion.  He talks about the corruption being fairly common and wide spread.  He also includes that corruption went right up to the superior officers and that prohibition is failing.

In conclusion, there are only a few sources you can trust.  These are source A + B as they are 2nd hand evidence and explains what happens in the period of prohibition and sources I and J because they tells us about the corruption which was true and the evidence is not biased.  Sources E, G, H, I and J says that prohibition was bound to fail and sources C, D and F suggest that it was going to be a success.  This means the majority of the sources suggest that prohibition was bound to fail.  I think that prohibition caused too many problems and was a waste off time as all it did was making America a very corrupt country.