Sam Mobley was against prohibition.
Sam Mobley lived in South Carolina, where he had been a cotton broker and banker. At age 74, he was interviewed as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. (These were New Deal programs in response to the Depression.)
Concerning prohibition, Mobley said in that interview, ""I have noticed that every attempt to legislate morals into the people has resulted in disaster." He believed that morals about such matters as alcohol consumption are best taught in church and at home, not something that we should try to enforce by governmental laws.
