harmful method of selling.  But no method of selling liquor can be more than a temporary expedient.  We must work inch by inch to extend the boundaries of absolutely “dry” territory.  “Local Option” has been of very great value in this movement, and may still in some States be the best attainable status.  Option by counties, with a prohibition of the shipment of liquor from “wet” to “dry” counties, is the preferable form.  Statewide prohibition, for a while in disrepute because of open violation of the law, is again gaining ground, ten of the forty-eight States being entirely “dry” at time of writing.  The ultimate solution can only be the adoption of an amendment to the National Constitution enforcing nation-wide prohibition; the agitation for such an amendment is already acute, and the promise of its passage within a generation bright.  The arguments against prohibition are not strong.  That the law is poorly enforced in localities where public sentiment is against it is natural; but no law is universally obeyed, and that a law is broken is a poor reason for removing it from the statute books.  No one would suggest repealing the laws against burglary or seduction because they are daily disobeyed.  This pseudo-concern for the dignity of the law is simply a specious argument advanced by those who have an interest in the trade, and accepted by those who suppose liquor drinking to be wrong only in excess and harmless in moderation.  The reply is to show that alcohol, practice that is always harmful must be fought by the law as well as by moral suasion.  Public sentiment must be educated up to the law; and the existence of the law is itself of educative value.  Moreover, the old observations of non-enforcement must now be modified; recent experience shows that the prohibition States are on the whole increasingly successful in enforcing their laws.  The new national law prohibiting importations from “wet” to “dry” States helps immensely; and with the forbidding of importations from abroad and of the manufacture of liquor anywhere in the country, the problem of enforcement will settle itself.  Except for the precarious existence of “moon-shiners,” and for what individuals may make for themselves, the stuff will not be obtainable. [Footnote:  For the arguments for prohibition, see H. S. Warner, op. cit, chaps.  IX, XII.  Artman, The Legalized Outlaw.  Fehlandt, A Century of Drink Reform.  Wheeler, Prohibition.] That prohibition involves the ruin of a great industry is true; these millions of workers will be free to give their strength to productive labor, these millions of dollars can be invested in some industry useful to mankind.  Confiscation will work hardship to the brewers and distillers; so it does to the opium-growers, the makers of indecent pictures, and counterfeit money.  A trade so inimical to the general interest deserves no mercy.  The States that have unwisely used the “tainted money” drawn from the industry by license will have a far richer community to tax