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Left to impractical theorizing, Prohibition is harmless: allowed to enter the realm of civil government as a practical working force, it becomes dangerous, threatening not only one liberty, but all the liberties of the people. For in the principle of Prohibition lies the germ of collective tyranny from which may arise every species of intolerance and despotism -- an intolerative principle as far removed from = the principle of American liberty = as heaven is from hell, and as different in every essential from the spirit of republican government -- a true democracy -- as the breath of the polar iceberg is different from the blaze of the equatorial sun!
Could the American public see Prohibition = as it is = , and not what it seems to be:then this un-American and un-Christian movement would speedily be relegated to the shades of oblivion, and = real and effective reform along moral, social and intellectual lines would begin = . As it is, Prohibition actually stands, like a Chinese Wall, in the pathway of = real reform = .