That National Prohibition is an approaching enemy to free government, of which the people should be warned even at the risk of being grossly misunderstood, is my opinion. From the watch-towers of American liberty the warning should go forth. For my own part, I feel well-repaid with the conscientious effort I have made in "The Menace of Prohibition." LULU WIGHTMAN. [Illustration: LULU WIGHTMAN.] CONTENTS PAGE A False Principle 6 Political Power the Object 9 Political Activities at Washington 10 Prohibition and Sunday Laws 13 Sumptuary Laws Increasing 14 A Dangerous Combination 17 An Old-Time Fallacy 21 Industrial Conditions Responsible 23 The Opinion of an Economist 24 Effects of Prohibition 26 Collective Tyranny in Government 29 Prohibition Censorship Despotic 30 We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.--_The Declaration of Independence._ =John Stuart Mill defines Prohibition in this language:= "Prohibition: A theory of 'social rights' which is nothing short of this--that it is the absolute right of every individual that every other individual shall act in every respect exactly as he ought; that whosoever fails thereof in the smallest particular violates my social rights and entitles me to demand from the legislature the removal of the grievance. So monstrous a principle is far more dangerous than any single interference with liberty;--there is no violation of liberty which it would not justify." And in the light of the last sentence, "so monstrous a principle is far more dangerous than any single interference with liberty;--there is no violation of liberty which it would not justify," the writer would especially examine this modern crusaders movement for Prohibition. Many other writers have viewed the question from sociological, economic, and religious standpoints; but the =principle= of the thing,--that in which it is based--a "monstrous" principle, which, as Mill says, "=is far more dangerous than any single interference with liberty=," deserves more serious consideration than any other phase of the question: a principle, in fact, of intolerant coercion as against the great principle of individual liberty so thoroughly established as the inherent right of the citizen at the very inception of this government in the Western world.