Excerpt from The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws: An Essay
The matter of these pages was suggested in a paper read to the Unitarian National Conference at Saratoga. A prominent politician, a sincere and eminent advocate of prohibition, said to the writer directly, "This is an old story of yours; it is worn threadbare." Inasmuch as several able members of that capable association, men versed in the literature of law and social science, had said that the argument, whatever its merits, was novel and original, the remark of the politician set the writer into a train of thinking. The able men knew more of the philosophy of law, but the politician represented more people. It is perhaps this stolid indifference among persons holding high public trusts to the causes, the underlying principles, and the results of their own action, which has led the writer to develop his theme and bring it before the whole public.
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