The Menace of Prohibition

The author argues that prohibition is primarily a political and legal danger because it advances a coercive principle allowing moral majorities to impose religious and moral standards through civil law. The pamphlet explains how such enforcement can capture and overturn established jurisprudence, expand sumptuary and Sunday legislation, enable censorship, and produce collective tyranny in government. It surveys political activity at the national level, examines economic and industrial factors, cites contemporary legal and economic opinion, and outlines practical effects anticipated from national prohibition. The writer warns that these developments risk replacing individual liberty with enforced conformity and urges vigilance in defense of constitutional rights.