Excerpt from The People Versus the Liquor Traffic: The Great Speeches of John B. Finch

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The present is an exceedingly interesting period in the history of the temperance movement. Evidence that the labors of the past half century have not been in vain, was never more abundant. This may be regarded as the era of constitutional prohibition.

In the year 1850 Michigan incorporated into her state constitution a provision prohibiting the granting of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors; and in the year 1851 Ohio placed a similar provision in her constitution. It was then thought that this would be all that would be needed. Subsequent experience has shown this to be an error. Nothing short of absolute prohibition will answer the requirements of the case.

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