Excerpt from The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws: An Essay The writer believes that the whole fabric of our legal and political action has been strained and injured by the institution and administra tion of these liquor laws. He believes that one _of the first and most important steps in the much talked about reform of civil government must be, to turn the humane temperance im pulse away from its abnormal action in law and in the state, and to give it natural play in the ethical improvement of the individual man and of society. If these pages contain any facts, or Show any reasons which may help to forward this issue, his labor has not been in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.