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MOONSHINE HISTORY

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      Many of our earliest Americans made moonshine.   Although the “revenuers” tried to stop the making of moonshine without paying taxes, it didn’t work very well.  Some were “tarred and feathered” or chased off by shotgun which usually just brought more revenuers the next time.

    There has always been “moonshiners” hidden somewhere or another.  After the revolution, the government needed money and so placed a federal tax on liquors and spirits.  But the people were not pleased so ignored the law.

   For most of them, it was a way they survived.  They usually had large families they had to feed.  If farmers had a hard year, they made whiskey from corn for extra income .  Living in the frontier was hardly bearable in the first place and they needed to make as much money as they could just to make it.  They sure couldn’t afford to make it and pay taxes.

   It wasn’t a good idea to be in the woods wandering around because you would probably run into a still with very rough characters protecting their livelihood.  Moonshine history is full of stories.

   Everyone has heard of the Whiskey Rebellion but not many can tell you what it was.  President George Washington had to have thirteen-thousand troops to break up the mob. There were several hundred very angry citizens who took over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The leaders were arrested.

  But this didn’t stop the moonshiners even though they failed with the rebellion. They continued to make moonshine and continued to avoid paying any taxes.  There have been many cartoons published as well as books and movies about the moonshiners vs. the revenuers and is now legend.

   Things really got out of hand in the 1860’s when the government needed money to fight the civil war.  Anyone who told on the moonshiners didn’t have much of a chance to live very long.  They would be found and killed.  The KuKluxKlan and the moonshiners banded together to fight the government against moonshine taxation.  Brutality ran rampant.

   Due to all the problems moonshining brought about, the temperance movement sought to ban alcohol all together.

Nationwide prohibition of all alcohol sales went into effect.  Of course, this drove the prices of moonshine clean through the roof so it was extremely profitable.  Organized crime took over in every city and the moonshiners couldn’t keep up.  They did everything from watering down their moonshine to cheaper sugar based “shine”.

   One woman in Kansas City, MO used to go to the bars and break out all the windows while preaching.  The bar owners would put new windows in and she would break them again and again.  It just so happens that she died just before the prohibition took effect.

The first prohibition started in 1920 and was repeated in 1933.  The sale of moonshine was shrinking.

   When distilleries, who paid taxes, were built and they could sell whiskey at a price just a little higher than the cost of moonshine.  And they could produce it faster, deliver it further, and make a tidy profit.

   For many years some states were still “dry” even though the ban was lifted.

   Making moonshine still goes on, but on a very small scale.   Moonshine history is full of very funny stories.   I’m sure you’ve seen movies where the moonshiners were busy at work when someone would whistle out to let the “cooks” know the revenuers were nearby.  For many years, the stills were torn up or confiscated all together and the moonshiners would just move to another area and build another one.

    Today those who don’t drink, and those who believe alcohol is a medical problem, and organizations like “S.A.D. have created organizations to stop the making of liquor, the selling of liquor in various places, and organizations wanting to raise the taxes so high that it would stop many from drinking.