Fingers in the Cookie Jar

Land of the Free

Years ago, when freedom reigned, and the West Indies produced sugar and molasses in great quantity, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, stoned. Alcoholism was epidemic. In the middle of the seventeenth century the fifty or so students at Harvard College accounted for 270 barrels of beer in one academic year. A century later the greatest manufacturing in the American colonies was distillery. By the time our forefathers had taken the sober decision to rebel, they were exporting 600,000 gallons of rum a year. It is recorded that in the year 1807 there were forty rum distilleries in the city of Boston alone.

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William F. Rickenbacker

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Land of the Free

Years ago, when freedom reigned, and the West Indies produced sugar and molasses in great quantity, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, stoned. Alcoholism was epidemic. In the middle of the seventeenth century the fifty or so students at Harvard College accounted for 270 barrels of beer in one academic year. A century later the greatest manufacturing in the American colonies was distillery. By the time our forefathers had taken the sober decision to rebel, they were exporting 600,000 gallons of rum a year. It is recorded that in the year 1807 there were forty rum distilleries in the city of Boston alone.