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- Narrator: The Prohibition Question.
This is a rather misleading title,
as there is no Prohibition Question in Viroqua.
There can't be.
There is no Prohibition.
Either the people have not heard of the great mistake of 1918,
or they are deliberately disobeying it.
I rather think it is the latter.
Despite the efforts of the WCTU,
city officals, and numerous long-nosed people
with plenty of time on their hands, there has been,
is, and always will be plenty of stimulating fluids in Viroqua.
Strong drink is raging, and beer?
Beer is two bits a quart.
There are no speakeasies in Viroqua.
If you should happen by a dispensary
and hear the wassail of lusty songs and feminine laughter
that is always in evidence,
speakeasy is the last term you'd think of.
Cyrus M. Butt III, Viroqua, 1932.
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