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Saloon Corrupts

Saloon Keeper Corrupts - Beard Cartoon

 

The prohibitionists argued that the saloon system corrupted local politics. Here Frank Beard shows the saloon interests paying off ("boodle" was the contemporary term for bribes) the local politicians, tax collectors, and criminal justice officials.

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