PROHIBITION | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

PROHIBITION.

It is the common talk of the liquor men that prohibition does not prohibit. If this were really the case, they would have but little cause to oppose the prohibition movement. But the fact of their determined opposition to prohibition, and even to the submission of the question to a fair vote of the people, proves beyond doubt that it does, to a very great extent at least, prohibit, and consequently is injurious to their business. Reports from Rhode Island in regard to the operation of the prohibition law in that State show that the results have more than justified the expectations of the friends of temperance. And the same is true of other States where prohibitory laws have been enacted. This is what makes the liquor men mad, and excites their opposition. We would like to have a little more of this so-called prohibition that does not prohibit.—Selected.