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==== Poisoned Alcohol ====

==== Poisoned Alcohol ====

With retail alcohol being prohibited, the government moved to prevent people from drinking alcohol intended for industrial use.<ref>[http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19270104.2.14&e=--------20--1-----all--- CHARGES OF HYPOCRISY RIFE AS CONGRESS DEBATES POISON LIQUOR], The Cornell Daily Sun, January 4th, 1927</ref>  Wood Alcohol, also known as methanol or 'denatured' alcohol, was still available.<ref name=deadly>[http://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/ The History of Poisoned Alcohol Includes an Unlikely Culprit: The U.S. Government]</ref> Despite government action, distillers would attempt to remove the contaminant to make industrial alcohol drinkable, which very often did not work.<ref name=deadly />  Drinking denatured alcohol may cause violent illness, blindness, or death.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=licDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18 The Truth about Poison Liquor], Popular Science, April 1927</ref><ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE0DE1531EF33A25756C1A9679C946395D6CF WOOD ALCOHOL'S TRAIL; Many Deaths Before Prohibition Throw Light on Methods Needed to Combat Evil], [[The New York Times]]</ref>

With retail alcohol being prohibited, the government moved to prevent people from drinking alcohol intended for industrial use.<ref>[http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19270104.2.14&e=--------20--1-----all--- CHARGES OF HYPOCRISY RIFE AS CONGRESS DEBATES POISON LIQUOR], The Cornell Daily Sun, January 4th, 1927</ref>  Wood Alcohol, also known as methanol or 'denatured' alcohol, was still available.<ref name=deadly>[http://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/ The History of Poisoned Alcohol Includes an Unlikely Culprit: The U.S. Government]</ref><ref>[http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19261231.2.2# NEW DENATURANT FOR GOVERNMENT ALCOHOL SOUGHT], The Daily Illini, December 31st, 1926</ref> Despite government action, distillers would attempt to remove the contaminant to make industrial alcohol drinkable, which very often did not work.<ref name=deadly />  Drinking denatured alcohol may cause violent illness, blindness, or death.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=licDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18 The Truth about Poison Liquor], Popular Science, April 1927</ref><ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE0DE1531EF33A25756C1A9679C946395D6CF WOOD ALCOHOL'S TRAIL; Many Deaths Before Prohibition Throw Light on Methods Needed to Combat Evil], [[The New York Times]]</ref>

[[Wayne Wheeler]], an activist for "dry" causes, supported the measure.  He said: "The Government is under no obligation to furnish the people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it", and "The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide... To root out a bad habit costs many lives and long years of effort..."<ref name=deadly />

[[Wayne Wheeler]], an activist for "dry" causes, supported the measure.  He said: "The Government is under no obligation to furnish the people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it", and "The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide... To root out a bad habit costs many lives and long years of effort..."<ref name=deadly />