The Prohibitionist's Text-Book; Comprising Arguments, Appeals, and Statistics Showing the Iniquity of the License System and the Right and Duty of Pro (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1887 Excerpt: ... family, ghut hini tut from the social circle, abut him out from business confidence, sh it him out from the church, shut him out from every place except the prison. That will be the only place when he has a right to go. Be consistent. If the rum-seller is a robber, treat him in the same way so long as lie pursues the business, and thus wars upon every interest of humanity. Let public sentiment be as intense against the rum-seller as his offence is injurious to society, and there would be no difficulty in executing the law--then would be no longer need of prosecutions and penalties. As the lanslayei of old fled from the avenger of blood to the cities of refuge, rum-sellers would flee to the very prisons and knoik foi entrance, in order to escape the scorn and contempt of an outraged, indignant public. 2. If this representation of the rum traffic, and those engaged in it, is correct, it ought to settle our convictions, and determine our conduct in all the legal aspects of the question. We have no objections to passing laws against robbery. Society cannot be too well guarded against that crime. There is little danger that the laws shall be too stringent or too well executed. If rum-selling is robbery, differing from the crime that passes by tha name only in its methods, and exceeding that a thousand-fold ii. its disastrous consequences, then why shall we hesitate to legislate against rum-selling? Is there danger that society shall be too well Erotected from drunkenness, from pauperism, from licentiousness, om cruelty, dishonesty, thefts, suicides, murders--from the whola infamous brood of vices and crimes, of which intemperance is the immediate cause? If society is safe and prosperous just in proportion as it is deliveied from these things, then is it not safe...