This is a very interesting old book about temperance and prohibition. This book was published in 1897 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston & New York, and The Riverside Press, Cambridge. The book measures 5 1/8 inches by 7 1/8 inches and contains vi, 342 pages. This is a former library copy from Ursuline College Library, Cleveland, Ohio and has the requisite markings. There is also a personal book plate on the inside front cover noting that it had belonged to the Private Library of Andrew J. McNamara, M.D., Cleveland. There is a pocket on the inside back cover. The date due slip has been partially removed from the back free end page. The green cloth cover has the title in gilt on the spine. A library sticker has been removed from the bottom of the spine. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine (top starting to fray). The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of foxing. For the most part, the pages show no signs of rips. One leaf is torn and the fore edges of that leaf are not completely cut. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good plus to near very good.

Contents:

Introduction
Prohibition in Maine and its Results
The History of Prohibition in Iowa
The South Carolina Dispensary System
The Restrictive System in Massachusetts, 1875-1894
The Liquor Laws of Pennsylvania
The Ohio Liquor Tax
Liquor Laws in Indiana, since 1851
The Missouri Local Option Law
Index

Excerpt - Prohibition:
Prohibitory legislation has succeeded in abolishing and preventing the manufacture on a large scale of distilled and malt liquors within the areas covered by it. In districts where public sentiment has been strongly in its favor it has made it hard to obtain intoxicants, thereby removing temptation from the young and from persons disposed to alcoholic excesses. In pursuing its main object,-which is to make the manufacture and sale of intoxicants, first, impossible, or, secondly, disreputable if possible,-it has incidentally promoted the invention and adoption of many useful restrictions on the liquor traffic.

But prohibitory legislation has failed to exclude intoxicants completely even form districts where public sentiment has been favorable. In districts where public sentiment has been adverse or strongly divided, the traffic in alcoholic beverages has been sometimes repressed or harassed, but never exterminated or rendered unprofitable. In Maine and Iowa there have always been counties and municipalities in complete and successful rebellion against the law. The incidental difficulties created by the United States revenue laws, the industrial and medicinal demand for alcohol, and the freedom of interstate commerce have never been overcome. Prohibition has, of course, failed to subdue the drinking passion, which will forever prompt resistance to all restrictive legislation…
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