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    The Menace of Prohibition
    The Menace of Prohibition
    The Menace of Prohibition
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    The Menace of Prohibition

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    Release dateAug 1, 2022
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      The Menace of Prohibition - Lulu Wightman

      Lulu Wightman

      The Menace of Prohibition

      EAN 8596547140610

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      A False Principle

      Political Power the Object

      Political Activities at Washington

      Prohibition and Sunday Laws

      Sumptuary Laws Increasing

      A Dangerous Combination

      An Old-Time Fallacy

      Industrial Conditions Responsible

      The Opinion of an Economist

      Effects of Prohibition

      Collective Tyranny in Government

      Prohibition Censorship Despotic

      The Menace of Prohibition

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      Most writers, in viewing the question of Prohibition, have followed along a beaten track. They have confined themselves generally to consideration of moral, economic, and religious phases of the subject.

      While I have not entirely ignored these phases, I have chiefly engaged in the task of pointing out a particular phase that it appears to me entirely outweighs all others put together; namely, that of the effect of Prohibition, in its ultimate and practical workings, upon the political—the structure of American civil government.

      I have endeavored to steer clear of its professions and obsessions, all of which can be of little consequence in the light of my contention that the major matter with which Prohibition is concerned is the capture and overturning of our present system of jurisprudence; and that the danger threatening from this tendency is real and foreboding I have conscientiously tried to make clear in these pages.

      That National Prohibition is an approaching enemy to free government, of which the people should be warned even at the risk of being grossly misunderstood, is my opinion. From the watch-towers of American liberty the warning should go forth. For my own part, I feel well-repaid with the conscientious effort I have made in The Menace of Prohibition.

      LULU WIGHTMAN.

      LULU WIGHTMAN.

      We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—The Declaration of Independence.

      John Stuart Mill defines Prohibition in this language:

      "Prohibition: A theory of ‘social rights’ which is nothing short of this—that it is the absolute right of every individual that every other individual shall act in every respect exactly as he ought; that whosoever fails thereof in the smallest particular violates my social rights and entitles me to demand from the legislature the removal of the grievance. So monstrous

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