Wisconsin, to the average American unacquainted with actual conditions therein, is commonly regarded as a Gibraltar of the wets—sort of a Utopia where everyone drinks their fill and John Barleycorn still holds forth in splendor.
—Frank Buckley of the Bureau of Prohibition, reporting on Prohibition enforcement in Wisconsin, 1929
via: Frank Buckley, “Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws: Official Records of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement: A Prohibition Survey of the State of Wisconsin.” Turning Points in Wisconsin History, Wisconsin Historical Society
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