An Adequate Remedy for a National Evil, or a Vindication of the National Prohibition Party (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Adequate Remedy for a National Evil, or a Vindication of the National Prohibition Party It is beyond a reasonable doubt that intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquors is pre-eminently the crime, the curse and the shame of this nation. Not that we are more drunken than some other nations, or that we as a people have no other vices. But this is the darkest stain upon our Christian civilization, and the chief hindrance to our social and financial prosperity. It may be justly charged, that we are a nation of drunkard-makers; that the laws of the country and the administration of the government are in the interests of the liquor traffic. In the very Territory occupied by the Federal Capitol, and under the control of its laws, the business is legalized. By our system of internal revenue, 150.000 grog-shops pay tribute to the government, and receive, as a consideration, its legal and moral support, taxing the people, annually, over $600,000,000 for the hurtful beverages consumed. To say the very least, the national government has thus far signally failed to exert its full power against a business which causes directly or indirectly not less than three-fourths of the crimes and pauperism of the country; a branch of trade in justification of which no one law of morals or of political economy can be offered. Therefore, if ours is a government by the people, and the people are responsible for the character of the laws, customs and institutions of the country, then the people of these United States are guilty of allowing the greatest public nuisance of the age to go unabated. Most truthfully has Hon. Henry Wilson said of this business (in the N. Y. Independent, March 24th, 1870.) 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.
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