Your article about violence AGAINST prohibitionists was very interesting and has set me back through my notes to see what supports your thesis and might also help in discussing this subject. In my book research ("Alaska Hooch"), the best support for your subject would have been in a different chapter (Churches and Liquor) where I discuss the murder of Charles Edwards in 1892. Charles was a teacher [and a quaker missionary] at a government school in Kake, Alaska when he was murdered. A full discussion of the event is recorded in Tomorrow Is Growing Old: Stories of Quakers In Alaska by Arthur O. Roberts; The Barkley Press, Newberg Oregon (1978) p.1-18. This murder and the efforts to bring murder sharges against the murderer resulted in other violence, including a tarring and feathering at Douglas Island (across the channel from Juneau. You didn't discuss the economic aspects of violence against prohibitionists. It could be argued that the temperance workers, the prohibitionists, and even the government officers who tried to keep the white traders away from Indians, blacks and others perceived as vulnerable to use alcohol excessively were taking away the economic livelihood from free traders who were just trying to make a living. Many viewed government intervention into the lives of "citizens" as intrinsically illegal, improper, unconstitutional and anti-American. Certainly if one were to exercise one's freedom by inflicting violence against those who would take away their personal liberty [to sell what they wanted], it couldn't be wrong and probaly would never stand when given the opportunity to be tried by other citizens who were also free. It could be argued that the one perpetrating the violence was, in reality, only defending his freedom. [Sounds like Oklahoma City] When the British tried to control our access to tea (and whiskey) without taxing it, it almost became our obligation to commit violence against them for limiting our freedom without our consent. Whiskey then became the American way to protest in addition to kicking their butts out of America. \\\// (0 0) +----oOO---(_)---OOo---------------+---------------------------+ | Thayne I. Andersen | Box 80384 | | email: [log in to unmask] | Fairbanks, Alaska 99708 | | voice: 907.353.1371 work +---------------------------+ | fax: 907.353.6574 | +----------------------------------+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo