CHAPTER XVIII.
PROHIBITION.
It has taken nearly half a century to convince the people that only in total abstinence lies any hope of cure for the drunkard.

When this doctrine was first announced, its advocates met with opposition, ridicule and even insult.

Now it has almost universal acceptance.

The effort to hold an inebriate's appetite in check by any restriction that included license, has, in all cases, proved so signal a failure, that the "letting down," or "tapering off" process has been wholly abandoned in inebriate asylums.

There is no hope, as we have said, but in complete abstinence.
NO REMEDY BUT PROHIBITION.
Is there any other means of cure for national drunkenness?
The remedy of license has been found as valueless for the whole people as restriction for the individual.