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Excerpt from Mistakes of Prohibitionists
Knowledge of truth should do more good than harm. Error leads towards destruction; truth leads us to the enjoyment of the highest good. The Supreme Being is the God of truth Christ's mission on earth, as he told Pilate, was to bear witness unto truth, [a profound teacher says that the enquiry after truth, the knowledge of truth and belief in the'efficacy of truth constitute the sovereign good of human nature and one of the best of poets says 'i'let truth and falsehood grapple, -who ever knew truth put to, the worse in a free and Open encounter in other words, let truth have fair play and it will assert itself.
By these precepts one is encouraged to withstand prejudice and to give reasons for believing that attempts to suppress the use of ih toxicating liquors by means of legislative enactments are based upon mistakes and not only fail to accomplish their object but give rise to greater evils than those they are intended to suppress.
While prohibitionists profess to act upon their motto, Sow the state knee deep with temperance literature, they draw attention to the comparative scarcity of either spoken or written replies by Claim ing that those whom they assail have but little to say for themselves. There is, therefore, the less need of an apology for the following at tempt to show that truth exists on the side which is opposed to their Views.
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