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Excerpt from The American Law School Review, Vol. 5: An Intercollegiate Law Journal Then under the inspiration of the war traffic in intoxicating liquors was for bidden, and under the same inspiration the Eighteenth Amendment was passed and the Volstead Law was put upon the statute book. Prosecutions under this law alone have added to the business in the federal courts certainly 10 per cent while Cases growing out of the income and other war taxation, out of war con tracts and claims against the government, have made discouraging arrears in many congested centers. The criminal busi ness has usually been first attacked, and the effort to dispose Of it has in some jurisdictions nearly stopped the work on the civil side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.