Should our focus be on violence against prohibitionists or on violent cultures?
I doubt that English advocates of Direct Local Veto risked violence.  In those
parts of the world where violence was accepted and expected those who dared
challenge economic interests and lifestyles, often with the help of insulting
rhetoric, did run a risk.  From my own research I can mention the burning down
of Amanda M. Way's Indiana home, a couple of encounters involving guns in the
early career of George Washington Bain in Kentucky, and a cryptic and undocu-
mentioned assertion that Oscar Carter (after whom black Templars named a lodge
in Florida) was the first person killed for his temperance views.  Attacks on
the status quo are physically dangerous when the people being attacked are
physically dangerous.   And people took risks.  To change the subject a bit,
G. W. Bain impulsively inserted in a temperance talk a denunciation of the
local KKK who littered with their whiskey bottles the ground near the body of
a youth whom they had lynched.      * David Fahey (Miami)