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[b]Prohibition[/b][/center]

“This law will be obeyed, we shall see to it that liquor is not manufactured, nor sold, nor given away, nor hauled in anything on the surface of the earth or under the earth or in the air.”
-- John F. Kramer, Prohibition Commissioner of the United States

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“As far as I am concerned, New Jersey will stay as wet as the Atlantic Ocean.”
-- New Jersey Governor Edward I. Edwards

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In preparation for the Prohibition, the Yale Club has stocked up on every form of liquor, beer, and spirits we could acquire in the previous year. Due to the loopholes in the laws this stockpile is ours to keep and slowly sell off as we see fit. The best we can tell our inventory is at such a surplus that we have enough alcohol to last fourteen years.
-- Yale Club Circular to Club Members

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Prohibition enters its eleventh month and results have been mixed so far. While hardened government agents strike out across the country to enforce the Volstead Act and plug up the liquor wells, nooks and crannies spring up with free-flowing booze in the form of speakeasies, blind pigs, and rum runners. As alcohol becomes criminal, it falls to the criminals of this country to keep the stream of spirits flowing. This criminalization has led to violence and mayhem to control the rackets. For proof we need to look no further than Chicago.

James “Big Jim” Colosimo, Chicago mob boss was murdered this past May. Rumor in the windy streets of Chicago is that Big Jim had begun to consolidate the bootlegging rackets in Chi-Town shortly before he was gunned down in a Southside cafe. As to who killed him, we need to simply ask that time-honored question of cui bono. Who benefits from Big Jim’s murder? Look no further than Johnny Torrio, the rumored new head of the Outfit. Torrio and his right hand man, Al Capone, are now sending a steady stream of Canadian booze into the US, so steady that the waters Lake Michigan are now believed to be 80% proof.
--[i]Minnesota Daily Star[/i] Crimewatch Report

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“In order to enforce Prohibition, it will require a police force of 250,000 men and a force of 250,000 men to police the police.”
-- New York Congressman Fiorello La Guardia

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“Why should I keep being a police officer when I am asked to enforce an immoral law? There is nothing wrong with alcohol, it is natural for a man or woman to need a stiff drink from time to time. We supply a need. How are we any different from Macy’s or Sears and Roebuck? On top of that, I make more in a week than I could in twenty years as a cop. Me and my people do not employ violence, and I do not let them carry guns… carrying guns is what I pay the Seattle police for.”

-- Former Police Lieutenant Turned Bootlegger Roy Olmstead