The Golden Age, “Prohibition for the Poor”
“From a criminal viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern negro speaks volumes for national prohibition.”
The sentence is one of four short arguments in favour of prohibition listed at the head of an unsigned article that then turns against prohibition, arguing that it was imposed on an unwilling population in wartime, that the wealthy had stocked their cellars, and that "there is no prohibition for the man who had a few hundreds or thousands of dollars to invest in liquid refreshments".
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Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Prohibition for the Poor
Confidence note. Read page by page from the item's djvu.xml on 19 September 2026. The leaf is numbered 44 in the item's page-number file and the following leaf's running head reads “The Golden Age for October 15, 1919”, confirming both the date and the page usually cited.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item “Magazines: The golden age, premiers numéros d’octobre à décembre 1919”, a bound run of the first issues of the magazine. Printed page numbers taken from the item's page_numbers.json joined to the djvu.xml leaves and checked against the running head “The Golden Age for October 15, 1919”.
Notes. The Golden Age was launched on 1 October 1919; this is the second issue. The article carries no by-line and is written in the magazine’s own voice, not as a reprint or a reader’s letter.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-race-ga-1919-1015-prohibition-poor