Compulsory Prohibition, according to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., "only leads to drinking in worse forms than under the old system." Count Tolstoi, in speaking of the Prohibition movement in America expressed the belief that "the people in America seem to be tending in a wholly wrong direction in this matter." Justin McCarthy, M.P., alludes to Prohibition in the United States as a "gross and ludicrous imposture." President Andrew D. White refers to the theory and practice as regards the drink problem as "pernicious." Sir William Treloar, former Lord Mayor of London, calls these restrictive measures "ridiculous." Bishop Hall, of Vermont, asserts that "Prohibition drives underground the mischief which it seeks to cure." Thousands of good, well-informed citizens of this country, high in public and social life, many of these leaders in religious sentiment and thought, are united in the belief that Prohibition begins at the wrong end of the matter, and they renounce it as not only weak, inefficient and impractical, but destructive to the American ideals. The art of self-control, public and scientific education, an understanding of hygienic and healthful living, proper social and economic development and surroundings: in these lie the true solution of the problem of intemperance; and not at all in sumptuary laws and prohibitory legislation, simply because these latter "put the cart before the horse," strike at effects and not at causes. Prohibition Censorship Despotic Let us not forget the principles for which our great American republic stands. Recollect, that the tendency toward imperial government and despotic rule is here today as it has been in every nation and in every age of the world. Menaces to the rights and privileges of the people are ever-present: the continued structure of safeguarding laws and constitutions presuppose the enemy to be ever near:--tyranny may slumber, but let bigotry and intolerance call ever so softly, and it springs into active life and being, and on every occasion, with consummate cunning, justifies its demands with a specious pretext--censorship for the good of the people.