He Can't Put It Out
A heavy man in a top hat, labelled 'Liquor Interests', flees from a towering lit firecracker labelled 'Public Indignation'. The poster presents rising anti-liquor sentiment as a force that cannot be stopped, so momentum stands in for the argument, and it shows the brewing and distilling trade as one caricatured figure rather than as named firms or arguments.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- American Issue Publishing Company (Anti-Saloon League of America); drawing by Sam Fickel
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Health, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Prohibition Campaign
- Techniques
- BandwagonName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1917 in the U.S.; LoC: no known restrictions)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Text on the object
PUBLIC INDIGNATION LIQUOR INTERESTS He Can't Put It Out SERIES G, No. 13. Published by the American Issue Publishing Company, Westerville, Ohio.
The artist's small signature ('Sam Fickel') within the drawing, and a small circular seal/logo above the imprint line, are not transcribed as body text.
