I have become convinced from long labor in this reform that the ordinary license system is only a poultice to the dram seller's conscience, and for restraining intemperance it is a ghastly failure.

Institutions and patent medicines to cure drinkers have only had a partial success.

The only sure cure for drunkenness is to stop before you begin.

Entire legal suppression of the dram shop is successful where a stiff, righteous, public sentiment thoroughly enforces it.

Otherwise it may become a delusion and a farce.
The best method of prohibition is what is known as "local option," where the question is submitted to each community, whether the liquor traffic shall be legalized or suppressed by public authority.