The Origin or the Main Law and of Prohibitory Legislation: With a Brief Memoir of James Appleton (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Among those who have done good and signal service in the cause of temperance, the name of the late James Appleton of Massachusetts should be held most gratefully and most tenaciously in remem brance by all who have faith in the expediency and the necessity of a Prohibitory Liquor Law. It was he who first publicly maintained - as most, if not all, who believe in Total Abstinence now maintain is the' logical outcome of the Temperance movement - that legislation has nothing whatever to do with moral evil except to aim at its complete suppression. If this is to bethe legislative policy of the future as to the traffic in intoxicating drinks, as it already is that of several of the States, it is interesting to trace that policy to its source and to learn something of the man who first promulgated it.

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