1888 Grade 2 Hammer Won Today:

[Mills]

I looked it up . . . Here it is:

“Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs.”
~ Roger Quarles Mills

[Bill Murphy]

Thanks, Mills. I neglected to mention that the 1887 speech was posted at the second to last paragraph in Bruce's thread. I am sorely tempted to plagiarize this wonderful speech with a gun control bent, but will restrain myself, at least for now.