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Charles Hanson Towne. The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE PHENOMENON OF PROHIBITION
CHAPTER II. OUR GREAT UNHAPPINESS
CHAPTER III. OUR ENDLESS CHAIN OF LAWS
CHAPTER IV. TOO MUCH “VERBOTEN”
CHAPTER V. MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR DE-MOCKERY-CY
CHAPTER VI. THE INFAMOUS VOLSTEAD ACT
CHAPTER VII. A TRIUMVIRATE AGAINST PROHIBITION
CHAPTER VIII “THE FEAR FOR THEE, MY COUNTRY”
CHAPTER IX. DRYING UP THE OCEAN
CHAPTER X. THE MULLAN-GAGE LAW, THE VAN NESS ACT AND THE HOBERT ACT
CHAPTER XI. BOOTLEGGING AND GRAFT
CHAPTER XII “DON’T JOKE ABOUT PROHIBITION”
CHAPTER XIII. HOW CANADA HAS SOLVED THE LIQUOR PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIV. CRIME AND DRUNKENNESS
CHAPTER XV. THE LITERARY DIGEST’S CANVASS
CHAPTER XVI. LITERATURE AND PROHIBITION
CHAPTER XVII. AMERICA TODAY
CHAPTER XVIII. OTHER REFORMS
CHAPTER XIX. IS EUROPE GOING DRY?
CHAPTER XX. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
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Charles Hanson Towne
The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States
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Thus was another holy law disobeyed.
And it is done every day, O proud fanatics, who think you are cleaning us up. And it always will be done. For poor old frail human nature is just what it is; and spiritual reformation can never come, as you would have it, from without, in. We must all work out our own destinies, from within, out. Somehow we like the little battles with our souls. They add a piquancy to life. They give a spice and zest to the level days. Our appetites are our own affairs. The moderate drinker is not a drunkard; and to place restrictions upon him, in order to cure the ne’er-do-well is as unjust as it would be to put the petit larceny prisoner in the death chair along with the murderer.
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