“PERSONAL LIBERTY.”
The following paragraph appeared as the editorial in “World’s Work’’ for July, 1924:
“Of course, if the fact is once demon strated that alcohol is a great physicu evil and a standing menace to the effective social organisation, all discus sion of ‘personal liberty’ has no mean ing, for one of the most fundamental principles of organised society is that it has the right to invade ’persona!
liberty’ when the safety or general im provement of the community itself is at stake. If alcohol destroys physical and mental vitality, decreases resist a nee to disease, increases poverty and ignorance, and stimulates vice and crime, then the State has the same right to prohibit it that it has to pro hibit heroin and cocaine. It is merely another exercise of police power—the power which the State uses for the. protection of the community as a whole.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 370, 18 April 1926, Page 14
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