Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it toughbut not impossiblefor a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor.
The dry-hards held Kansas for nearly 70 years. In 1933, they rejected the federal repeal amendment (21st) with the offended aloofness of a preacher declining a Sazerac. Many a hypocrite, it was...
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