Who Is Percy Andreae? A Glimpse Behind The Mask Of Prohibition?

“Percy Andreae: A Glimpse Behind the Mask of Prohibition.”
In “A Glimpse behind the Mask of Prohibition,” Percy Andreae gives the perspective of the Anti-prohibition and how there is a lot more to the prohibition movement then just the illegalization of alcohol (112-116). Andreae start with a quote from the bible, comparing chopping off right hands of everyone because some cannot control their own right hands (112). That’s one of the main arguments throughout the text. How is it possible to mass punish all adults because of a few adults inability to control themselves is the question Andreae puts forth to the reader (112-113). Another point made is how that the Prohibition movement is really a religious movement. He says that it is only certain religious sects that are the main drive behind the prohibition movement and it is to assert supremacy for then it it for the betterment of mankind (113). Andreae then gets into the difference between the advocacy of temperance and advocacy of prohibition, and how the Christian community doesn’t support temperance when they should (114). Andreae then lays out the consequences if prohibition goes into effect to include “ A few billion of invested property will be destroyed, a number of wealth-producing industries wiped out, the rate of individual taxation largely increased, and a million or so of struggling wage earners doomed to face starvation” (115). Andreae makes several

Backed by German-owned beer companies he organized the National Association of Commerce and Labor (111). While Andrea made a career out of out this in the 20th century, not much is known about him and at least I cannot find anything. His book then Prohibition Movement in its broader Bearings upon our Social, Commercial and Religious Liberties was published in 1915 during the heat of the Prohibition debate