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May 11, 2015
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Five years of Prohibition
have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely
disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists.
None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the
passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is
not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not
less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The
cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect
for law has not increased, but diminished. - HL Mencken, 1924
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