Prohibition : Viewed From a Legal As Well As a Moral Standpoint
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The contest in the legislature between liquor and temperance is of forty years' standing. Then again, the effects of legislation on public af- fairs must be considered. Evils have to be removed and public interests advanced, which produce changes of condition. For example when billions of property were sunk in the liberation of four million of slaves, who paid the loss ? When the State changed her system of turnpikes to canals and slackwater nav- igation, who paid the owners of property on cana...ls and slackwater for losses ? Thus, it will be seen the question of compensation is too big a one to be discussed now. It will require all our time and means to discuss prohibition before the 1 8th of June. We cannot permit the amendment to !urn on a side issue now, for fear we make a mis- take and lose the greater good. PERSONAL LIBERTY. The right of society to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquors is often assailed as an attack upon personal liberty. This is a mistake. No one claims 16 PROHIBITION.
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