Or, even if the good claimed for it be only negative instead, of positive, its right must still be unquestioned.

But what if it works evil and only evil in the State?
What if it blights and curses every neighborhood, and town, and city, and nation in which it exists; laying heavy taxes upon the people that it may live and flourish, crippling all industries; corrupting the morals of the people; enticing the young from virtue; filling jails, and poor-houses, and asylums with a great army of criminals, paupers and insane men and women, yearly extinguishing the light in thousands of happy homes?
What then?
Does this fruit of the liquor traffic establish its right to existence and to the protection of law?
Let the reader answer the question for himself.

That it entails all of these evils, and many more, upon the community, cannot and will not be denied.

That it does any good, cannot be shown.

Fairly, then, it has no right to existence in any government established for the good of the people; and in suppressing it, no wrong can be done.
PROHIBITION NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
How the question of prohibition is regarded by the highest legal authority in the United States will appear from the following opinions officially given by four of the Justices of our Supreme Court.