Prohibition was doomed from the start because it was almost impossible to control the large flow of illegal liquor from various countries, mainly Canada. "Bootleggers smuggled liquor from oversees and Canada, stole it from government warehouses, and produced their own." ... Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 brought to prominence those officers charged with investigating criminal violations of the Internal Revenue law, including illicit manufacture of liquors. ...

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