26 PROHIBITION. 



"protection" is for themselves. They are so zealous for the "public 

 o-ood" that thev would crowd it down the people's throats ! _ 



° The people having no definite standard for government, admit 

 the restriction, without protest ; it is recognized, acquiesced in ; con- 

 tinued acquiescence gives consent ; consent makes a contract ; and a 

 contract settles a thing. One false restriction leads to another. 

 The first has been established as a precedent, by which an inequal- 

 ity of conditions is admitted, and there is then no end to govern- 

 mental tinkering. Separate violations, at last, run together into 

 one chronic disease. This disease is called government. Its i\r- 

 annv at last becomes 'vested' and 'divine' ; to question it is treason 

 andWasphemy. The people are "the m-asses," the "lower classes. 

 Their general degradation is so stereotyped, it is attributed to a 

 second law of nature, where they must forever remain. They are 

 subservient, degenerate, and only know how to imitate and obey. 

 Tlie individual lias been absorbed by the county, the county by the 

 state, the state by the nation. The rulers are a set of despots, liv- 

 mo- on war and taxes. The people have lo^t their liberlij. 



" Now prohibition utilizes all these methods in m-esting away 

 the people's liberty First, their interpctation of the principle of 

 o-overnmcnt is false : second, the precedents they adduce to sustain 

 Their position are false : third, they seek to accomplish their ends 

 by means of class prejudice. 



THE TWO KINDS OF GOVERNMENT CONTRASTED. 



Now picture to yourself two communities where tliese two 

 kinds of goveVnment are in operation ; one paternal, the other 

 defensive ; one the regulator of morals, tlic other a suppressor of 

 crime In one of them (Jod's inspiration flows down through the 

 eaves of the orlliodox .Inuch un.l passes along in conduits of uni- 

 form order. There are no saloons, but tlie people drink just the 

 same. There; are no houses of prostitution, l)Ut llie people are just 

 as uncliaste in their lives. Tliere are no gambling dens, but every 

 one desires to overreacli. Tliere are no erroneous views, but the or- 

 thodoxy is musty and mouldy with age. IHaving all public places 

 of vice sui)prcssed, it is now our duty, if the law is correct in prin- 

 ciple, not to allow it to be evaded in private. And since no law is 

 of any avail, unless it is executed, private houses should be put un- 

 der guard. Detectives and tlie secret seiwice should be introduced. 

 Whei-c every body is suspctrtcd, but no one detected, decoys must 

 be (•iuph>ycd to tn,q,l the olVence. Tl.e ollicers must .show enough 

 .rame to "make their .services needed. In detecting immorality ev- 



