Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE MENACE _of_ PROHIBITION BY LULU WIGHTMAN ADVOCATE OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.--_Patrick Henry_ Price 10 Cents Los Angeles Printing Co. 314 West First Street. +GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR+ A pamphlet containing a series of Mrs. Wightman's Lectures on themes of absorbing interest----about the very things that +YOU+ are +THINKING+ and +TALKING+ about +TO-DAY!+ --the all-important questions --the perplexing questions --the paramount questions Mrs. Wightman's views on public matters--political, religious and economic--should claim the serious attention of every citizen of the United States. A Third Edition necessary to meet the demand 64 pages, with portrait of the author, good paper, clear type, attractive cover. PRICE, 25 CENTS, BY MAIL, POSTPAID Write Name and Address Plainly Address the Author Mrs. LULU WIGHTMAN 314 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal. THE MENACE of PROHIBITION BY LULU WIGHTMAN "No man in America has any right to rest contented and easy and indifferent, for never before, not even in the time of the Civil War, have all the energies and all the devotion of the American democracy been demanded for the perpetuity of American institutions, for the continuance of the American republic against foes without and more insidious foes within than in the year of grace 1916." _--Hon. Elihu Root, in address before the New York State Bar Association, Hotel Astor, New York, January 15th, 1916._ Copyright, 1916, by Lulu Wightman PREFACE Most writers, in viewing the question of Prohibition, have followed along a beaten track. They have confined themselves generally to consideration of moral, economic, and religious phases of the subject. While I have not entirely ignored these phases, I have chiefly engaged in the task of pointing out a particular phase that it appears to me entirely outweighs all others put together; namely, that of the effect of Prohibition, in its ultimate and practical workings, upon the political--the structure of American civil government. I have endeavored to steer clear of its professions and obsessions, all of which can be of little consequence in the light of my contention that the major matter with which Prohibition is concerned is the capture and overturning of our present system of jurisprudence; and that the danger threatening from this tendency is real and foreboding I have conscientiously tried to make clear in these pages.