William L. Barker

Returning Officer: William Barker, Esq., 18 George's place

In 1925, Salvation Army Colonel William L. Barker told the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Press, "Prohibition has diverted the energies of the Salvation Army from the drunkard in the gutter to the boys and girls in their teens," he said."The work of the Army has completely changed in the past five years. . . Prohibition has so materially affected society that we have girls in our rescue homes who are 14 and 15 years old, while 10 years ago the youngest was in the early 20s."Protecting children, in fact, later became a rallying cry for prohibition's repeal.

In addition to being widely available, the drugs being distributed by the underground market today are both more pure and less expensive than ever before.According to the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Global Illicit Drug Trends 1999, "Over the past decade, inflation-adjusted prices in Western Europe fell by 45 percent for cocaine and 60 percent for heroin.Comparative falls in the United States were about 50 percent for cocaine and 70 percent for heroin."

On February 9, 1925, nearly halfway through America's disastrous national experiment in alcohol prohibition, Colonel William L. Barker, Northern Division, Salvation Army, was asked by a Minnesota newspaper reporter about the impact of Prohibition.Col. Barker's response, which speaks to a vastly increased level of access by children to prohibited substances, is as relevant to the parents of today as it was to the parents of the time."Prohibition has diverted the energies of the Salvation Army from the drunkard in the gutter to the boys and girls in their teens," he said.

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In 1925 , Salvation Army Colonel William L. Barker told the St. Cloud ( Minnesota ) Press , Prohibition has diverted the energies of the Salvation Army from the drunkard in the gutter to the boys and girls in their teens , he said.The work of the Army has completely changed in the past five years... Prohibition has so materially affected society that we have girls in our rescue homes who are 14 and 15 years old , while 10 years ago the youngest was in the early 20s..Protecting children , in fact , later became a rallying cry for prohibition's repeal.

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In addition to being widely available , the drugs being distributed by the underground market today are both more pure and less expensive than ever before.

On February 9, 1925, Colonel William L Barker, Northern Division, Salvation Army, was asked by a Minnesota newspaper about the impact of Prohibition.His response is as relevant to the parents of today as it was to the parents of the time: "Prohibition has diverted the energies of the Salvation Army from the drunkard in the gutter to the boys and girls in their teens."

Colonel William L. Barker, Northern Division, Salvation Army, 9 February 1925, when asked by a Minnesota newspaper reporter about the impact of Prohibition.