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...object of the League is the extermination of the beverage liquor traffic, for the accomplishing of which the alliance of all who are in harmony with this object are invited. The League pledges itself to avoid affiliation with any political party as such and to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality on all questions of public policy not directly and immediately concerned with the traffic in strong drink...
...will agree that the abolition of public nuisances are the desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
...shocking if it be recalled that science no longer conceives of two classes of persons: the "sane" and the "insane." The "sane" are simply that large, vague mass of humanity which neither rises sufficiently above the normal to attain "genius" or sinks sufficiently below it to become the object of restraint. The action of so-called "mental diseases" may either benefit or harm humanity, may bring the "diseased" power and wealth or lead to the madhouse...
...believed that the universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other great English novelists would have made a scant living in this state...