King Alcohol and his Prime Minister

Print shows a man identified as "King Alcohol" and a skeleton representing Death standing on barrels labeled "Strong Beer, Wines, Rum, Gin, Brandies, Whiskies, compounded liquors"; with "social class" and "moderate drinkers" on the left, as well as the "suicide & murderous fighter"; and on the right, the "dead & drunken", their broken families, ruined homes, and their graves. "Hope" at lower left mourns the "60,000 annually in the U.[S.] States". "King Alcohol" holds a tankard in his raised right hand with a snake coiled around his arm; printed above is reference to Prov. XXIII 32 (in the end, it will bite like a snake and poison like a viper.
C5939 U.S. Copyright Office

Inscribed in pencil at top left: C5939.
Inscribed in pencil at bottom: Alcohol & Death are seen in the central part; the social, the confirmed & moderate drinker together with the suicide & murderous fighter on the left. Hope with her broken anchor, mourns in sackcloth. On the right; the dead & drunken; the beggard wife & children; the ruined cottage; the jail, the drunkards graves &tc.
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Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).