even though there isn't a cartoon to base my answer on I would say that its a safe bet that organized crime increased during prohibition because people wanted to drink but they couldn't so large groups of people would get together to make sell and drink alcohol. but just a hunch since i cant see cartoon
In the Elizabethan great chain of being, it was "minerals" that were at the lowest rung of human society, since it was believed that these were the foundations of plant life and nothing more.