.MTk5.NDUxNDc

2 unnecessary. Hence I would have no motive other than to see the law rigidly enforced. In this respect I am unlike Pat who said he was "in favor of prohibition but agin the enforcement of it." Fourthly underlined I realize fully the degradation caused by the saloon, and I despise above all men the rum-seller and would be delighted to put see him and his saloon put out of business. And yet; notwithstanding all this, and having a desire to see my countrymen made happier and more prosperous by law or any legitimate means. I am not underlined in favor of prohibition. I will briefly give a few reasons for my belief. My first underlined objection to prohibition is a fundamental one. If we define the primary function of government to be that of protecting each individual against all others, then all other State action comes under the deffinition of protecting each individual against himself - against his own stupidity his own rashness, or other defects that prevent