Why Were Bootleggers Called That?
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Although Prohibition officially began on January 16, 1920, the impetus for banning the production, sale, importation and transportation (though not the consumption) of alcohol had been brewing for decades before. Part of a string of reforms introduced by Progressives, Protestants and other activists to cure all of society’s ills, limiting the consumption of alcohol was thought by many to be the cure for domestic violence, poor health, loose morals and, of course, public drunkenness.
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"Do not place the [rehydrated grape must] in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine." Lmfao. 😂
I love that. 🤣 The snark levels are amazing.
Wink wink
@@MegaKapo12 nugh nugh !! 😉😉😉
if I tried that it'd turn into a jug of fruit flies.
I'm sure all the customers complied as sales skyrocketed.
I just love the instruction. "Don't do this okay wink wink nudge nudge"
It’s so weird that most of our societies basically share the consensus that alcohol prohibition was absurd, dysfunctional and dangerous ... but we nonetheless near universally perpetuate a drug war and prohibition on other intoxicants that is about as evidence-based and effective as pretending that farts are a form of conversation.
Where did the concept of "traditional anniversary gifts" come from? Paper for the first, silver for the 25th, gold for the 50th, etc.
And this is why illicit drugs should be legal, and their use treated as a health crisis instead of criminal activity.
indeed and my dude its gonna change hopefully within our lifetime.
But, where would the prisons get legal slaves then? (yes that is a thing in the US)
zetsumeinaito
For sure, for-profit, private prisons are some bullsnot. The “war on drugs” was more like “operation fill the beds”.
It seems to me that some people have this view that people should have the right to use whatever drugs they like, but they should choose to refrain from doing so. I find this to be very contradictory. If one believes that a person should have the right to choose to take drugs then they must also accept that some people will choose to take drugs. What's the point of having a right that you aren't supposed to exercise?
@@joegillian314 Many drugs especially psychedelic ones can be taken without any consequences. But to answer your question then it is the same as with alcohol. You should also refrain from alcohol but it would be stupid to make it illegal. Also, many drugs can be just as safe as alcohol in moderation so you shouldn't necessarily always refrain from them if you can keep yourself from getting addicted which many can. But when that is said then I don't know what my opinion is as I don't know what to do about the people that don't know how to not get addicted. People are different so you should almost have different laws for each person. But no matter what, the fact that you can go to prison for drugs that are for personal use is stupid as it serves no one. It should be a fine or nothing
The Bureau of Internal Revenue? You mean BIR? OH THE IRONY!
I gets it . Nice picture . Is you a special lil guy ?!?
@@IETCHX69 that picture was taken in summer of 2015 I look way different now. I just haven't bothered to change it.
I actually have thought that "Moonshiner" was a person who made "moonshine" i.e. homemade alcohol and "bootleggers" either transferred, sold or consumed it.
Since a good family friend was a bootlegger (I'm from Kentucky, which still has "dry" counties) and a moonshine still repairman, I can attest that you're right -- a bootlegger is someone who runs whiskey, while a moonshiner is someone who works a still to make it.
I'm glad you mentioned my native State of Kansas. However, what is not generally known is that enforcement was rather spotty until the passage of the 'bone dry law' in (IIRC) 1904. From 1890 until 1904, my grandfather ran one of several open saloons in my hometown. Technically a criminal, he was a respected businessman, with a half page advert in the city business directory reading, 'Max Weismiller, dealer in fine wines, spirits, and cigars'.
At the end of the video, we found out where the expression,"I'm gonna hit the bricks" came from.
YEEEEEESSSS another prohibition video!! I've been researching it for years now!! This was so much fun to watch, I hope other viewers were able to take as much interest in this period as I do!
Yet we learned nothing and went on to fight the losing war on drugs
They needed something for all those federal employees to do, and they wanted something else to be used as an unequal enforcement tool. It's literally by the book of bureaucratic growth and subject-control theory. Before alcohol, it was witchcraft & the occult. Before that, it was heresy. Before that, it was variable taxation. Before that... was the bronze age.
The point isn't to win the war. The point is to employ people to fight it, people who will then keep you in office (i.e. votes) so they stay employed, who will keep down or eliminate anyone you don't like, and who can also be used as your own private army on the side to strike at any threats to your position of power. The DEA, ATFE, and the IRS are all direct descendants of Prohibition bureaucracies.
This idea of making common practices illegal, and then prosecuting it only on those you wanted to prosecute for something anyway, is literally as old as civilian government. To my opinion, the best modern literary metaphor on it is "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, where a dictator literally made freely given good-will a crime.
There is currently an opiate crisis in the States that in killing legions of people. You won't convince a family that legalizating Heroin is a good idea. This is in fact the fourth opiate crisis since the 19th century where Doctors and snake oil salesman got people hooked as far back as the American Civil War.
The DEA to this day maintains that the only problem with prohibition is that it “didn’t go far enough” bunch of tyrants
Mac vena, actually they would, since many wouldn’t have died had their smack had not been just fentanil
@@macvenaThe opioid crisis is because of doctors over subscribing to people without proper warnings of the addiction. When addicts can know longer get prescribed pills where do u think they go? The whole thing was designed to happen
That last bit reminded me of an old British law about kit-cars (home built vehicles). If a car came with assembly instructions it came under one section of law, if not it came under much more favorable rules (or maybe it was quotas, not really sure).
If, however, you ordered a pile of parts from Lotus and it happened to be the entire parts list for one if their chassis', it came with the step by step disassembly instructions that were definitely not intended to be read backwards
very interesting. thanks love your topics
One interesting note, to keep his job one of the feds charged with enforcing Prohibition went on to demonize marijuana, using anti-Mexican sentiment to get it made illegal. That's right, millions of people went to jail for smoking weed just so a racist bureaucrat could keep his cushy job.
Actually it was around the orginal moive called refer madness, Look it up
_Adam Ruins Everything_ did a well researched video on the subject, you should check it out
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@@STSWB5SG1FAN HAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! you use that ass clown as a reference... wonderful joke my dude.
@@STSWB5SG1FAN Did you unironically use Adam Ruins Everything as a source? That's never a good idea buddy.
Blacks too, not just Mexicans.
So Simon here's my question for a future episode. How do Pharmaceutical companies come up with the names of drugs and how does someone get that job?
It wasn't people that made alcohol that were bootleggers, it was the people that smuggled and ran the alcohol that were bootleggers.
He does state that the term was "extended to those who made and or transported etc..."
@@7-ten Cuz It was illegal to do at the time, The people who made transported and sold it where all called bootleggers
@@bryanpettus7111 I thought the people who made it were "moonshiners".🤔😏
*for tobacco use only*
North Dakota came in as a 'dry' State, in 1889. It stayed a dry state until Prohibition was repealed. (And we've been making up for it ever since) But to get around this all you had to do was go to your local pharmacist who could write you a prescription for a shot of brandy, whisky or gin. They had to keep track of how many gallons they had and who they gave them to, of course. Which they wrote down in their book, not unlike what they DEA requires them to do today. I've personally seen two of these books and scanned them. Quiet funny to read through all the symptoms people had that got them a shot of liquor as the cure.
Hey, you found the one good thing to ever come out of the state of Kansas.
Some info here I was unaware of, thanks. 👍🏻😃
Ya the bootleggers used to throw bags of flour across the road, to signal that the law was down said road
👍!👍! Good job & thanks for the knowledge.
I gather that this is how the "war on drugs" (for profit) started.
How do we make profit by starting a multi-billion dollar campaign against drugs that includes a new government agency and refitting hundreds apon hundreds of police departments with modern equipment?
@@Tinfoil_Hardhat its profit for the company's making the gear and if the person in charge is corrupt good old fashioned bribery
@@briancarlson6216 That's not profit for the government, as they're just shelling out more money. Also bribery is not a common thing at all, and if you try it, it's not going to work for you
@@Tinfoil_Hardhat of course its not. We (the average American) make pocket change compared to the amount really needed to pull off a successful bribe.
Im sure if you ask some multimillionaires or billionaires they have all (especially in the billionaires) the government officials they want in their back pocket.
@@samsadowitz1724 No proof for your claim
Brewers survived prohibition by making malt syrup and selling it in can for "cooking". On the label was a warning that said do not mix with water and yeast or could it could ferment.
Proud ancestor of distillers and runners right here!
So how old are you out of curiosity?
@@falxonPSN I'm 50.
Moonshiners are not bootleggers bootleggers transport the liquor moonshiners make it. It was rare for them to be one in the same. And the bootleggers ain't gone anywhere our payload just changed.
James Neally Why does it say OUR payload? I’m scared
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Exactly. It's needlessly risky for someone to be both the producer and the distributor. Modern illicit drug producers (who want to get away with it) correspond with their distributor(s) via dead drop.
If you consider "grandpa makes it and the kids drive" to be separate entities, okay. Otherwise, not at all rare. More like normal. There is a lot of family-farm business in "reduced-tax beverages," and areas where the feds just stay the frak out and pretend to be important from a distance.
Dope runners are just employees and mercs, with shit ethics and delusions of grandeur, by compare to brewers.
One *and* the same. That is all.
What sad is that there are still places you can't buy alcohol due to local laws. My county didn't start selling beer much less harder alcohols until I was in high school (late 90s early 2000s). A county north of us just starting being able to sell beer about 10 years ago so the affect of prohibition is still being felt today.
I love that bonus fact! lol
Very interesting indeed.
Y'know a good number of people after reading: "Do not place the [rehydrated grape must] in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine," must have been thinking, "I'm doing just that right now." lol lmfao rofl
The original boot legers were coastal smugglers that use to wear long wader boots to go out into the water to unload tender boats so they didn't have to land on the beach. So if raided the boats are not captured. .
W.C. Fields said in his Temperance Lecture:
"Controlling spiritus fermenti is tougher than tying a hair ribbon on a bolt of lightning."
Loved the bonus fact
And now we have the exact same situation but with weed and all over the globe. Which many have realized, but frankly... I'm scared because so many doesn't seem to realize it.
Cheers!!!!!
0:20 nice "old sepia print stain" effect there on your old photograph, but you forgot to "zoom out" on the stain while you were "zooming out" on the photograph.
It's okay . I rubbed the shit outta my screen .
Dammit.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Moonshine, the type of homemade brews, is now legal in the US so long as you have an appropriate licence. I miss Mythbusters! how else would I learn such a roundabout law?
I've heard it's pretty difficult to get a home distilling license, at least for human consumption.
My dad's uncle was a bootlegger in Oklahoma in the 1950's and 1960's.
An interesting aside here is when it comes to modern terminology and music. In that there exists in music two forms of non-commercial music distribution, piracy and bootlegging. Piracy is (legally defined) theft of copyrighted music, ie copying a published CD, and given away or sold. On the other hand there is bootlegging, a gray to white market where non-copyrighted music, ie recording a concert where there are no prohibitions by either the venue or the band to do so, and shared freely among fans of the band for free. I'm fully opposed the piracy, but support bootlegging and have the terabytes of hard drives full to show for that. Even some bands actively support the idea of bootlegging their concerts, namely the greatest band of all time Ween. And there is certainly legal distinctions between piracy and bootlegging, piracy is highly illegal but bootlegging is legal and policed only by the band and their management if they so choose to do so. I wonder how this term came into use.
Missed your chance at the end to say cheers for watching
1:42-OKC RAT II pocket knife
Yeah noticed that very modern knife. Wondered if it was supposed to be an Easter Egg.
This was very fascinating. I can't wait for the future video.
When I lived in the suburbs of Detroit, I knew an elderly lady that I would cut the lawn do the snow and other odd jobs for. She was a sweetie and quite a 'card'... Any time she baked cookies or pies I would get a call for a job and end up eating my fill of goodies and coffee and chatting for several hours with her. On day she told me of how she used to 'bootleg' booze across from Windsor Canada during prohibition... She said she would slip pints into her garter belt and top of her stockings and with the skirt covering her sins just slip back over into Detroit! She still had her 'flapper' dresses and hats from the day and showed me many photos of her and 'the girls' who all took part in these nefarious deeds:) She never married as she was a very 'liberated' lady for the day and I miss both her baked goods and her friendship... God speed Henrietta, I will always remember you:) 🇬🇷☮️
You forgot the part about how bootleggers invented NASCAR, showing off their cars to other bootleggers, and eventually raced them for bragging rights of who had the fastest car. This quickly became a spectator-sport, and after prohibition, people just raced the cars for sport in what would eventually be called the "National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing" and also gave rise to the advent of "sleepers", or cars that appear to be "stock" but are heavily modified. This would have been an interesting tangential fact to add in this video.
Bonus fact: them cars the bootleggers used started racing each other.
Skip a few years
Thesen national association of stock cars now have a professional league.
The weirdness of the Kansas prohibitory laws over the years is fascinating in and of themselves. I have a chapter about it in my upcoming book. Violations were quite differently treated between the sexes. Men would go to jail, but women who violated it went to the penitentiary.
Everyone should watch the documentary Prohabition by Ken Burns.
And thus, the roots of stock car racing...eventually, NASCAR.
Simon it looks like you're having a lot of fun. That's good always smile I love your information thank you.
Simple answer: They weren't. The people who made it were (and still are) called Moonshiners. Bootleggers are the people who smuggled illegal alcohol, be it moonshine or a legally made spirit from another country. Rum Runners were bootleggers who smuggled using boats and ships.
In my county(sullivan,TN.)They would vote dry but drink wet.😂😂😂😂😂😂
That instruction about not placing the liquid in a cellar for 20 days or it becomes wine was not so much a warning, but a wink-wink-nudge-nudge, this is how you turn this into wine. But legally we can't be charged because we told you not to do that.
brick of wine, the equivalent today of box of wine
Not really; it's essentially a homebrew kit. Looks like a brick of grape must (crushed grapes, including skin and stems). Add this to water, and the natural yeast found on the grape skins will begin to ferment the sugars in the grapes, producing ethanol (and carbon dioxide). After the ethanol level reaches ~14%, it kills the yeast, and one need only strain out the sediment.
Taylor Wine in New York State also labeled its bottles of grape juice with a reminder that due to the 18 Amendment, it was illegal to add a specified amount of sugar and yeast to the juice...
@@danielhebard1865 thanks for sharing, what an amazing plant
My grandmother was a temperance lady.
Quadruppled.
Whistley boi!
I need a brick of hooch for real lol
My great-grandfather was a bootlegger. According to our family history, he lived in Cleveland and would go across Lake Erie to Canada to buy booze, then brought it back and delivered it to a speakeasy near the lakefront. Lots of people did this, and most got caught. He never did. His secret? He didn't have a motorboat. He rowed across and back, and never made enough noise to be discovered.
I'm curious as to how alcohol consumption was measured during prohibition?
If sale was illegal then surely any method must have been very inaccuracie
"Quid-Druppeled" Interesting pronunciation.
-Ban alcohol, caused by discrimination against Germans, violent crime goes up, organized crime gets involved, NFA gets passed.
-Ban drugs, caused by descrimination against several minorites, violent crime goes up, organized crime gets involved, Hugh's Amendment is passed.
-In both examples, most of the negative effects fade except the gun control. 🤔
I bought a couple bootleg LP's.
I was certainly NOT as drink as you thunk
Not ALL people get wacky under the influence-
but
plenty of those that do make trouble for the rest of normal people.
And the drain on society is astronomical.
6:05 it's nice news outlets were able to report that... and the public respond as it saw fit
rather than suppression of facts and ideas, as other countries have done... and what America may be headed towards :(
Ironic that Utah was the final state to ratify the 21sr amendment, as they are now one of the states with the most restrictions on alcohol
What is the history and definition of the Mexican stand off?
2 women driving . Both signaling left . Both too scared to take the leap of faith . Finally the light turns red and a smart person unloads 2 clips into both deserved customers .
I feel better , somehow .
How did the power symbol come to be? (Circle with a stick inside)
You can’t tell me what to do brick of wine instructions! Just watch me!
Had a house in a Kansas City, Missouri suburb which used to be outside the city during Prohibition, and had a speakeasy located next to the stream in the backyard. We'd regularly find caches of old glass bottles when digging up parts of it. Mostly liquor bottles, of widely varied colors and shapes, but also some very small ones which I suspect were perfume bottles and the kinds of "cure-alls" that contained now-restricted drugs. The foundations of an old cabin were still somewhat visible; I suppose the speakeasy in what was the backwoods at the time. Yes, my backyard had previously been a Roaring 20s party dump.
My grandfather on my dad's side ran moonshine for Al Capone. After proabistion was over he became a coal miner. Died in 70s of black lung.
Prohibition*
@@TheCptCoy that's what happens when I type without my glasses on.
I have a sealed bottle of prohibition "medicinal" whiskey that was my mother's, formerly my grandparent's.
Hey distilled liquor never xpires ......OPEN IT!!!!!LOL jk keep that shit
Yet we think that banning other intoxicates will lead to other results.
My grandmother's nickname was Boots, referring to bootlegging. =)
Brick wine is going to be awfully low alcohol after only 20 days, I'd give it 30.
I make my own wine using fruit juice, yeast, and sugar. I usually ferment it for a week in primary, another week in secondary, and then let it age for about 6 months to a year before bottling.
Simon great work, but maybe you tell the neibors to turn the music down. From a musician ear, it is quite a distrattive pain. Thanks
Damn shame…The President wants a beer, and he gets Budweiser instead
Where does the phrase, often used in cowboy movies "yippie-io-kay-eh(roughly)" come from?
It's a horse command. To move forward - quickly(run or gallop)
Like Gee & Haw (sometimes Hee & Haw) is right and left.
Is a record a disk or a disc in totays terminology disk refers directly to a HDD platter but just now searching "disk record" every other results had it spelled both ways all referring to vinyl records
You are commenting on the wrong video. Your subject has got NOTHING to do with tise video's subject.
@@tubularap 3:34 and stop being salty
@@---bs8dp - I apologise !! Thanks for pointing me to the moment I must have dosed off ;-) Seriously, I was wrong, and I should have checked myself before blurting out.
I've always heard that Bootleggers just transported the stuff. Moonshiners made it.
Yep, that's the correct use of the terminology.
So sad how things work. My Uncle was badly injured by a drunk driver on a motorcycle. He was never the same again because of a terrible head injury. He spent the rest of his like in a nursing home. I do not like Alcohol.
sorry to hear that. i have had two of my uncles killed by drunk drivers.. heres the thing, i dont blame the alcohol. i blame the pieces of shit that decided that drunk driving was acceptable.
What a pity that you did not include how Marihuana was used as a alcohol substitute, and that when Prohibition was cancelled, the alcohol industry wanted those users back. That was when they created the idea in the public's mind that it was a bad substance to use. That was so succesful that weed use still has that negative image, and that it spread around the globe. We're still facing the results of that scheme today. Maybe in a coming video.
There are a lot of different interests and influences behind cannabis prohibition that all came together (Anslinger; DuPont; anti-Mexican and anti-Black racism, and more). Declarations that one or another of them is "the" reason are just ... incomplete. Fortunately we seem to be in the waning years of that idiotic policy; where I live it's /been/ gone, and good riddance.
How about moonshine?
"to you bootleggers lovin' to bootleg, I'm breakin' all both of ya legs"
--Missy Elliott, 2001 or some shit
I would enjoy a biographics on Anton Lavey
His life was fascinating
The prohibition was about destroying distilleries where alcohol was produced for sale as automotive fuel locally. This tightened the grip of oil companies petroleum fuels on the market. Easy move by oil companies to pay lobbyists.
Same story with hemp/cannabis vs cotton. Less of a sociopolitical issue and more of a business move by cotton mafia.
So the USA went from WWI to Prohibition to the Great Depression to WWII in direct succession. That’s 28 straight years of self-imposed misery, during a period of relative prosperity.
I have a question... Why do US TV shows, have murder victims identified by living family? Is this a real thing? Does it apply in some cases or is it added for dramatic scenes?
"For medicinal use only"...lol.
tee-hee-hee, "quadrupppulled"
I thought this was about bootlegs like with musicals and stuff
Kwa-druhp-ld? Lol
Kwa-droop-ld
po-tay-toh, po-tah-toh
Po-tay-to, yam
Was acme an actual company?
Yes it is, I saw a orange construction barricade while I was parked at a stoplight (You know the orange things that look like orange barrels on the road) and I noticed that it said "Acme barricade" on the side
... Because _NASCAR drivers_ was too long to pronounce.
It's true it's true
@@kyleshiflet9952 Baloney! Nascar had nothing to do with it. It didn't officially didn't exist for a good 15 years AFTER Prohibition was repealed. You don't know your history with what came when and for what reasons.
@@sailingsolar Indeed, from what I understand, stock car racing became a thing as a *result* of the development of homegrown mechanical engineering and vehicle piloting skill-sets, which then grew independently of their original purpose once that purpose (evading Prohibition agents) ceased to exist. Kind of the way tech and skill sets developed during warfare find their way into general industry and consumer goods post bellum.
@@sailingsolar but we're dealing with an OP who calls themselves "Oslo MGTOW" so by self-identification not to be taken seriously about anything
Oh my God guys it was a joke I now NASCAR tooke place after prohibition and don't ever question my knowledge of histoy
Why do I think the beginning of the show music feel like it's going to break into "magic carpet Ride"
By Steppenwolf.....
Oh ty. I need to add that song to my r-n-r song list!
Have a great day! 👍
almost positive you already did a video on this...
The US government killing 10,000 of its own citizens?
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Makes MK ultra/MK Naomi seem pretty tame in comparison
Would you say quadruple again?
So if the war on Alcohol wasn't worth fighting back in the day why are we still attempting to fight the war on other illicit drugs today?
Because we never learn anything ever.
Politicians are trying to do the same with guns.
funny how many people still think that prohibiting mind altering substances improves their societies. In the end most of the time only criminals profit. Of course some substances should be restricted, but in the end one only has one life here and should, once old enough, and as long as one is mentally fully capable, be responsible for what they do to their own body. How is it that we let this discourse be dominated by established tradition instead of scientific results? I personally prefer to have a long life without destroying myself with some of the more damaging substances out there but many people like to i.e. consume alcohol which is proven to be one of the more damaging and addicting mind altering substances out there and we consider it to be their good right to do so. Since they are grown up etc. and should be responsible enough to decide for themselves. I personally think this precedent destroys the reasonable argument for the restriction of substances which is currently practiced in most countries. Either one is consistent in ones argumentation or one is just choosing for others with which substances they can get high and destroy themselves. I would prefer striving for an improvement in general mental health combined with programs in school which educate people on the risks and long term effects of prolific mind altering substances instead of simply banning some of them and expect that people don't take them because of this. The human psyche simply likes to escape reality sometimes and I think we should be able to do so while being informed enough to choose a way to do so that harms us the least and being mostly mentally healthy enough to do so with reason. But, well expecting the world to make sense at this stage is apparently just expecting too much of our established systems.
My question is, did they really put moonshine into jugs marked with "XXX," and if so what did the XXX mean? If not, how did this meme get started?
Probably means 30 proof.