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Excerpt from The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition:

I saw a box of Armours Meat drop off an express wagon and broke every bottle,

Prohibition has done some very good things in the road building line, It has been the cause of more road improvement between dry and wet towns than any other thing,

If you want good roads leading out of your town vote it wet and the surrounding towns will fix up your roads,

Bad roads have broke more bottles of booze than the authorities,

The Prohibitionists put the bill through as a food saving device, And it has certainly been a success, Its made food so high people cant eat it,

The poorer people will have to go to Europe this summer to escape the high prices over here,

It looks like we would have to have another war for things to get cheap like they used to be during the last one,

And they still allow these Prohibitionists to eat, You know a drinking man he dont eat much and the more he drinks the less he eats but these Prohibitionists they just naturally ruin a meal,

Prohibitionists dispose of enough food just before speaking engagements to feed all the starving Armenians in the world,11

The amount of time and energy consumed by Prohibitionists in speaking if put to a legitimate business would cut everybodys average work day down to 4 hours,

But the minute they get Prohibition they will hop on to something else it will be Cigarettes or room and bath, or something