This 1923 foretelling in the February 12 Bridgeport Telegram ( Bridgeport , Connecticut ) was written by William H. Anderson , New York Superintendent of theAnti - Saloon League . Mr. Anderson importune that by the year 2022 only the “ abnormal , subnormal , fell and depraved ” will drink alcohol .
drink in upyou friendly pervert ! We only have a few years exit !
By the year 2022 the general public will have see that the byword “ Wine is a mockingbird ” is scientifically true ; will have discover that beer is “ not liquid bread but poisoned water ; ” and will have accepted the fact that intoxicant is “ a drug abuse - forming , irritant , narcotic toxicant . ” The beverage use of it will be dead unknown except among the abnormal , subnormal , vicious and depraved , which classes will largely have been breed out of the race in America .
The result will total because the beer and wine campaign will die when the American people comprehends that it seeks to write a lie into the Constitution and in spite of its pretenses would operate to bring back the saloon .
The prohibition Law will rapidly be enforce with increasing efficiency due to comprehension that olation of any police force bring in all laws into contempt and jeopardizes our spare innovation .
The millennium will not have arrived because of Prohibition , which will then be world - astray , but the road will have been cleared and made true .
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