“Marching through Georgia”
A group of men and women march under such banners as “The Lips That Touch Corn Likker Shall Never Touch Ourn,” “W.C.T.U.,” and “Carrie Nation Cadets,” with one man carrying a small barrel labeled “Vegetable Tonic,” and a large wagon labeled “Water Wagon No. 1” immediately behind the leaders, to show their support for prohibition. They are all colored blue.
Comments and Context
Puck celebrated –or, rather, observed — the passage of statewide Prohibition in Georgia in this cartoon by L. M. Glackens. To the surprise of many, given backwoods Georgians’ reputations, the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages was banned statewide — the first state besides Maine (which long ago repealed such restrictions in many of its counties) to do so. On the other hand, in the deep South, the hold of moralistic Christians, represented by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was strong.
