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"King Alcohol, and his Prime Minister" (1872)

Designed and engraved by John Warner Barber (1798-1885). Print shows a man identified as "King Alcohol" and a skeleton representing Death standing on barrels labeled "Strong Beer, Wines, Rum, Gin, Brandies, Whiskies, compounded liquors," with "social class" and "moderate drinkers" on the left, as well as the "suicide and murderous fighter," and on the right, the "dead and drunken," their broken families, ruined homes, and their graves. "Hope" at lower left mourns the "60,000 annually in the U.[S.] States." "King Alcohol" holds a tankard in his raised right hand with a snake coiled around his arm; printed above is a reference to Proverbs XXIII 32 ("In the end, it will bite like a snake and poison like a viper."). (Source: Courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Public domain.)

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