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Show Then and Now V, 8. MADE GREATEST PROGRESS IN PERIOD BEFORE DRY LAW History fails to show that the liquor traffic ever Impeded the progress pro-gress of American achievement. In fact, when alcohol could enter American Am-erican homes by the front door, Uncle Sain was ift the mldtit of his . greatest perlqd of inventive genius, j believes Liberty Magazine- i'l4t's see about those 155 years --.tiie bad old days of the still room and the saloon," writes' Liberty Lib-erty editorially In the current issue. is-sue. "In that period, we elected Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and T Wilson as Presidents and certainly certain-ly six out of seven were personal as well as political wets. fjn that period likewise we invented, in-vented, evolved, or developed the cotton gin, all our harvesting machinery, ma-chinery, the telegraph, the telephone, tele-phone, the electric light, the rail; road, the steamship, the gasoline engine, the talking machine, the motion picture, the radio, the skyscraper, sky-scraper, the trolley car, the tr-bine, tr-bine, and antiseptic surgery. The United States did pretty well In the bad. old days before prohibition. Its population grew from 3,000,000 to 115,000,000. It spanned the continent with a network net-work of railroads, dug the Panama Canal, and sent the largest expeditionary expedi-tionary force in history across the Atlantic to conclude a victorious, war. "Ami what particularly brilliant things have we achieved since, in the good new days of prohibition? Well, we have elected Harding, Coolldge, and Hoover, apd we have evolved the greatest criminal figure in our history Al Oapone, who has made Jese James in his palmiest palm-iest days look like a piker and many others like him.. Outside of that it's hard to think just what we have done," |