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    The Menace of Prohibition
    The Menace of Prohibition
    The Menace of Prohibition
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    The Menace of Prohibition

    By Lulu Wightman

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Menace of Prohibition - Lulu Wightman

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      Title: The Menace of Prohibition

      Author: Lulu Wightman

      Release Date: October 17, 2010 [EBook #33920]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MENACE OF PROHIBITION ***

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      THE MENACE

      of

      PROHIBITION

      BY

      LULU WIGHTMAN

      ADVOCATE OF CIVIL AND

      RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

      They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.—Patrick Henry

      Price 10 Cents

      Los Angeles Printing Co.  314 West First Street.

      GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR

      A pamphlet containing a series of Mrs. Wightman’s Lectures on themes of absorbing interest——about the very things that YOU are THINKING and TALKING about TO-DAY!

      —the all-important questions

      —the perplexing questions

      —the paramount questions

      Mrs. Wightman’s views on public matters—political, religious and economic—should claim the serious attention of every citizen of the United States.

      A Third Edition necessary to meet the demand

      64 pages, with portrait of the author, good paper, clear type, attractive cover.

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      THE MENACE of PROHIBITION

      BY LULU WIGHTMAN

      No man in America has any right to rest contented and easy and indifferent, for never before, not even in the time of the Civil War, have all the energies and all the devotion of the American democracy been demanded for the perpetuity of American institutions, for the continuance of the American republic against foes without and more insidious foes within than in the year of grace 1916.

      —Hon. Elihu Root, in address before the New York State Bar Association, Hotel Astor, New York, January 15th, 1916.

      Copyright, 1916, by Lulu Wightman

      PREFACE

      Most writers, in viewing the question of Prohibition, have followed along a beaten track. They have confined themselves generally to consideration of moral, economic, and religious phases of the subject.

      While I have not entirely ignored these phases, I have chiefly engaged in the task of pointing out a particular phase that it appears to me entirely outweighs all others put together; namely, that of the effect of Prohibition, in its ultimate and practical workings, upon the political—the structure of American civil government.

      I have endeavored to steer clear of its professions and obsessions, all of which can be of little consequence in the light of my contention that the major matter with which Prohibition is concerned is the capture and overturning of our present system of jurisprudence; and that the danger threatening from this tendency is real and foreboding I have conscientiously tried to make clear in these pages.

      That National Prohibition is an approaching enemy to free government, of which the people should be warned even at the risk of being grossly misunderstood, is my opinion. From the watch-towers of American liberty the warning should go forth. For my own part, I feel well-repaid with the conscientious effort I have made in The Menace of Prohibition.

      LULU WIGHTMAN.

      LULU WIGHTMAN.

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