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...III. Prohibition is an effective remedy, - (a) It can be enforced, e. g. Mass: R. C. Pitman. Alcohol and the State, pp. 26-47; - Maine: H. W. Blair, Temperance Movement, p. 370: - Kansas: Forum, VII. 681; - Iowa: Special pamphlets. - (b) It diminishes the evils of intemperance...
...wrong in principle, - (a) It gives to an evil the sanction of law. (b) It strengthens the saloon power: New Engl., XLVIII. 127. - (c) It tends to make drinking and the liquor traffic respectable: North Am. Review, vol. 147, p. 123. - (d) It debauches public sentiment: Our Day III. 335. - (e) It is the plan of the liquor men: Hand-book of Prohibition...
Best general references: Labor Cycl. II. 384-5; Mill on Liberty, p. 158, et seq. Forum ii. 232, 401; iii. 152; vii. 673, 682; Macm. LIX. 338; Nation [1869-1889.] ix. 429, xii. 353; xvi. 365, xxxvi. 35, 168, 272, xiii. 52, xlvi. 70, xiviii. 133, xlix. 470; New Engl. li. 401; New Princ., Rev. iv. 31; No. Am., vol. 139, 185, vol. 141, 34, vol. 144, 479; Pop. Sci. Mo. xxvi. 787; Unita Rc. xxvi. 496; Boston Herald, Dec. 10 '92; John A. Andrew, Errors of Prohibition...
...Prohibition is bad in principle: Forum iii. 152; New Engl. XLIV. 706; Andrew, 96; Mill, 158, 160. - (a) Infringes personal liberty: Labor ii. 384 - (b) An unwarranted and extreme measure: Forum vii. 674; And. Rev. ix. 22; Nation xii. 354. - (c) Inquisitorial in nature: Nation xii, 353. - (d) Society concerned with the abuse not the use of intoxicants; Forum vii, 674, Nation xii, 354. - (e) All consumption of alcohol not deleterious...
...III. High licence with "local option" is the most effectual method of dealing with intemperance: No. Am. vol. 144, p. 500; Nation XLVI. 71; Pof. Sci. XXVI. 790-2; Nordhoff, Polit. for Young Am. 156; Boston Herald, Dec. 10. '92. - (a) It will reduce the number of saloons: No Am. CXLIV. 499; Nation XLII. 52, XLVI. 71: - (b) Licences will defend their privileges against unlicenced dealers: No. Am. CXLIV. 499. - (c) The fewer the saloons the less the political power: No. Am. vol. 144. p. 500. - (d) It has all the good features of prohibition without menacing personal rights...