Practical Prohibition

PRACTICAL

PROHIBITION

By V. W. GRUBBS, Esq.,

OF THE GREENVILLE (TEXAS) BAR,

CONTAINING A PLAIN, PRACTICAL DISCUSSION OF THE CAUSES
AND EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE AND DRUNKENNESS, AND
THE MOST EFFECTUAL REMEDIES THEREFOR, INCLUDING
EARLY TRAINING, PROHIBITORY LEGISLATION, BOTH
LOCAL AND GENERAL, WITH AN APPENDIX GIVING
A SYNOPSIS OF THE PROHIBITORY LEGISLA-
TION AND LICENSE LAWS OE THE SEV-
ERAL STATES OF THE UNION; ALSO, A
BRIEF SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

“I would not espouse either side of an important question if the reasons
prompting my course would not bear a faithful and impartial presentation in
any form whatever, and should I find them faulty and unfounded in princi-
ple, upon thorough investigation, I would abandon my position at once. I
am going to publish a book on · Practical Prohibitton' and scatter it broad
cast over Texas, regardless of anybody's 'doubts as to its wisdom and pro-
priety at this time. I would publish it though I knew that I would never
receive a cent in return for the outlay. Please say to your readers that the
work will appear on the ist day of June next, even though I should be forced
to dispose of the entire edition by gratuituous distribution.”—[Author's Let-
ter to the Paris Daily News, March 29, 1887.

T. C. JOHNSON & Co., BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS,

* GREENVILLE, TEXAS.

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PRESS OF EUGENE VON BOECKMANN, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

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DEDICATION.

TO PROF. WILLIAM HUDSON, A. M., of Trinity University, as a token of my high appreciation of his varied and extensive learning, the innate goodness of his simple heart, and of my lasting gratitude for the unselfish and disinterested kindness bestowed during the halcyon days of my college life, this book is respectfully inscribed by

THE AUTH')R.

CONTENTS.

SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE...

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II.

CAUSES OF DRUNKENNESS.

Hereditary-Defects in Training Children's Appetites and

Impulses - Bad Examples— Curiosity— Indiscrimi-

nate Social Treating-Fashion's Power-Social Con-

dition of the Country

CHAPTER III.