DRUNKENNESS is bad, drunkard making is far worse, governmental sanction and protection of drunkard making is infinitely more shameful and wicked. But for civil government, the divinely appointed agency for the promotion of human welfare, to attempt to make lawful, and to afford its protection to, the unspeakably infamous work of drunkard making, because the drunkard maker pays for permission to conduct that work, is a reproach and a disgrace the extent and depth of which cannot be expressed in human language. It is the colossal crime of the ages, the monstrosity of human history.—Ervin S. Chapman.
"THE United States Supreme Court says that 'no man has a natural right to sell liquor.' Yet we grant men a permission to do what they have no right to do."