Howard Herron Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A: No, it wasn't all Ladies.
Q: Probably a lot of the church congregations?
A: That's right. The church foundations were the ones that did it.
They had a secret ballot. They had booths and advertised before election
day. Of course, they had to get all of these legal papers to hold all of
these elections.
Q: But they repealed that amendment later on. So they must have thought
it wasn't working out too good,
A: It was working out too good, but it was national--after that came the
Volsted Act. That was the entire United States. Then that was bootleg
too. They made homebrew and made wine in their cellars.
Q: Then that was when you heard so much about the gangsters from Chicago?
A: That's right. St. Louis and New Orleans--every city. Well, finally
the people didn't want it. It was worse and caused more trouble. So
when Roosevelt was elected they did away with the Volsted Act.
Q: Did the taverns open up again immediately in Auburn?
A: Yes. For part of that they sold two percent beer, only two percent
alcohol. Then, later they sold five percent.
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