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  THE RISE AND FALL
  OF PROHIBITION




  [Illustration: (Publisher’s logo)]

  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
  ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

  MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
  LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
  MELBOURNE

  THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
  TORONTO

[Illustration: I have seen hulking men enter a shop at nine in the
morning, hastily tear off an ice-cream soda containing I know not what
flavoring and dash out again into the world of business. No habitual
drunkard could show a worse record. The soda-fiend is a sensualist,
knowing nothing of the healthy ecstasy of comradeship. He is a solitary
drinker of the worst sort.]




  THE RISE AND FALL
  OF PROHIBITION

  THE HUMAN SIDE OF WHAT THE EIGHTEENTH
  AMENDMENT AND THE VOLSTEAD ACT