Bootlegging in Zion: Making and Selling the "Good Stun 0 ' BY H E L E N Z. P A P A N I K O L A S
the Deseret News called Prohibition on the evening before Utah went dry. "A splendid measure," Gov. Simon Bamberger said of the Utah dry law that would take effect on August 1, 1917, and the Salt Lake Tribune assured its readers that "No Prohibition bill ever became law with a better chance of being enforced." Instead, Prohibition introduced X H E GREATEST BLESSING SINCE C H R I S T , "
Mrs. Papanikolas is a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society and a former member of the Board of State History and the Advisory Board of Editors of Utah Historical Quarterly.
Liquor agents with seized still, probably in Salt Lake City. Photograph courtesy of William Fotes.
