The Minneapolis Daily Star reported a startling admission by an Anti-Saloon League representative: Many Milwaukeeans still drank, and drank to excess, during Prohibition.

Dry Chief Admits
Milwaukee Is Wet

All Classes Breaking Law,
Pastor Says After Mak-
Ing Tour

Milwaukee, Jan. 2 – Rev. Kenneth MacInnis, Anti-Saloon league representative here, today publicly admitted that he had been wrong in saying that there was little drunkenness in Milwaukee and that what there was was among the riff-raff of society.

“Far more drunkenness exists in Milwaukee than I had any idea could,” he said, after touring the bars of the city in the company of Dr. J.J. Seelman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.

“Everybody seemed drunk in one of the places we visited,” Dr. MacInnis said, “and at first I was refused admittance because I was not accompanied by a lady. I am convinced violations of the law are being committed by all classes.”

Minneapolitans, too, were probably imbibing in great numbers during Prohibition. Here, Hennepin County Sheriff Earle Brown did his duty by smashing a liquor still in about 1925. (Photo courtesy mnhs.org)

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