Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 19: May, 1916A great moral wave is sweeping over the nations of the world, including not only our own country, but the leading pow ers of Europe. One of the main forces instrumental in bringing on this movement is the attempted elimination of the liquor traffic. Prohibition first took form in what was known as local option, but this 15 too local and too optional and has already proven a failure. On the other hand, where there has been state wide prohibition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.