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Grappling with the Monster

CHAPTER XVIII
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They see that it has uncounted wealth at its command; that it is organized and unscrupulous; that it has the support of fierce appetite behind it and the alliance of every evil lust; that it is able to bribe or intimidate the great political parties.

All this is true; but still it is not to be the final victor.
It has all the elemental moral forces of the human race against it, and though their working be slow, and their rate of progress dependent on human energy and fidelity, the ultimate result is as certain as the action of the law of gravity in the material universe.

Wealth may be against us; rank may affect to despise us; but the light whose dawn makes a new morning in the world, rarely shines from palace or crown, but from the manger and the cross.

Before the aroused consciences of the people, wielding the indomitable will of a State, the destroyers of soul and body shall go down forever." THE VALUE OF PROHIBITORY LAWS WHEN ENFORCED.
It remains now to show how far prohibitory laws, when enforced, have secured the end for which they were created.

On this point, the evidence is clear and satisfactory.


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