Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Right to Restrict Alcohol Traffic

1900

The Interior says: "If a man say he has a right, in the exercise of his personal liberty, to get drunk, and the dealer to sell to him if he wishes to buy — very well, so he has — but the community has violable interests in the transaction, and has a perfect right to protect them. The rapid increase of the traffic makes it certain that drastic, repressive measures are necessary to the protection of the most valuable civil interests of the people."

—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 21.

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