The Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic Personal liberty, the true and false. Society has the right to limit personal liberty. Absolute personal liberty does not exist. Mutual concessions required in society. The good of society, the supreme law. Society must protect the individual. Owes the individual protection from the deception and ruin of strong drink. Owes protection to itself from the depreciations of the drinker. May abate a nuisance. Such as the saloon. The out-cry against Sumptuary legislation. Strong drink not food in any proper sense. It is taken as a dissi ation, and as a concomitant of low vices. Prohibition removes the bott e of wine from the dinner table. The danger of wine at table. Entrenched in social customs. Rights are constantly 11mited in other matters for the good of society, why not here? Personal liberty must be subordinate to the public good. Page 74. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.