Appetite, when once depraved, becomes, in the individual, lawless, exacting and unscrupulous; not hesitating to trample on duty, justice, humanity and every public and private virtue.
It will keep no faith; it will hold to no pledge, however solemnly taken.

It must be wholly denied or it will be wholly master.
As in the individual, so in the nation, State or community.

Appetite loses nothing by aggregation; nor are the laws of its action changed.

If not denied by prohibition in the State, as by total abstinence in the individual, it will continue to entail upon the people loss and ruin and unutterable woes.

License, restrictive permission, tax, all will be vain in the future as they have been in the past.