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The Menace of Prohibition

Chapter 18: The Menace of Prohibition
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The author argues that prohibition is primarily a political and legal danger because it advances a coercive principle allowing moral majorities to impose religious and moral standards through civil law. The pamphlet explains how such enforcement can capture and overturn established jurisprudence, expand sumptuary and Sunday legislation, enable censorship, and produce collective tyranny in government. It surveys political activity at the national level, examines economic and industrial factors, cites contemporary legal and economic opinion, and outlines practical effects anticipated from national prohibition. The writer warns that these developments risk replacing individual liberty with enforced conformity and urges vigilance in defense of constitutional rights.

THE PROSPERITY OF THE COMMUNITY.

THE PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY OF THE PEOPLE.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES OF THE CITIZENS.

THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE LAND.

THE STABILITY OF THE REPUBLIC.

A vote against Prohibition is a vote against THESE MENACES!

 

 


The Menace of Prohibition

Should be widely circulated by every advocate and champion of Personal Liberty and Constitutional Rights

Right at this time—in the crisis of American Liberty!

There is nothing just like it

The arguments are not of the stereotyped class

The facts given are indisputable

It does not offend the man on the other side of the question

It appeals to the citizen who desires fair play—and wants to see the American Republic continue a free nation, safeguarding the interests of ALL and granting “special privileges to none”

REMEMBER ALWAYS—
“Eternal Vigilance is the price of Liberty”

SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS EACH

BY MAIL, POSTPAID

Special rates on large quantities—100, 500 and 1000 lots—will be given upon application

Address the Author—

Mrs. LULU WIGHTMAN

314 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal.


Footnote:

[1] Inter-church Conference was the beginning of the National Federation of the Churches, which maintains a Prohibition department and is committed to the programme of Prohibition.

 

 


Transcriber’s Note: Punctuation has been corrected without note.