THE MENACE
of
PROHIBITION
BY
LULU WIGHTMAN
ADVOCATE OF CIVIL AND
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
They that can give up essential liberty toobtain a little temporary safety deserveneither liberty nor safety.—Patrick Henry
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THE MENACE of PROHIBITION
BY LULU WIGHTMAN
“No man in America has any right to rest contented and easy andindifferent, for never before, not even in the time of the Civil War,have all the energies and all the devotion of the American democracybeen demanded for the perpetuity of American institutions, for thecontinuance of the American republic against foes without and moreinsidious foes within than in the year of grace 1916.”
—Hon. Elihu Root, in address before the New York State BarAssociation, Hotel Astor, New York, January 15th, 1916.
Copyright, 1916, by Lulu Wightman
PREFACE
Most writers, in viewing the question of Prohibition, have followedalong a beaten track. They have confined themselves generally toconsideration of moral, economic, and religious phases of the subject.
While I have not entirely ignored these phases, I have chiefly engagedin the task of pointing out a particular phase that it appears to meentirely outweighs all others put together; namely, that of the effectof Prohibition, in its ultimate and practical workings, upon thepolitical—the structure of American civil government.
I have endeavored to steer clear of its professions and obsessions, allof which can be of little consequence in the light of my contention thatthe major matter with which Prohibition is concerned is the capture andoverturning of our present system of jurisprudence; and that the dangerthreatening from this tendency is real and foreboding I haveconscientiously tried to make clear in these pages.
That National Prohibition is an approaching enemy to free government, ofwhich the people should be warned even at the risk of being grosslymisunderstood, is my opinion. From the watch-towers of American libertythe warning should go forth. For my own part, I feel well-repaid withthe conscientious effort I have made in “The Menace of Prohibition.”
LULU WIGHTMAN.
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