Alcohol and the State: A Discussion of the Problem of Law as Applied to the Liquor TrafficNational Temperance Society and Publication House, 1877 - 411 pages |
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... drink the greatest obstacle to the diffusion of education amongst the masses of the people . " Mr. Bruce , the Home Secretary under the Gladstone ministry , confessed that intemper- ance was " not only a great evil , but the great- est ...
... drink the greatest obstacle to the diffusion of education amongst the masses of the people . " Mr. Bruce , the Home Secretary under the Gladstone ministry , confessed that intemper- ance was " not only a great evil , but the great- est ...
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... drink produces more idleness , crime , want , and misery than all other causes put together . " Nor have such utterances been less pro- nounced in our own country . The common sentiment as to the vice of in- temperance was well ...
... drink produces more idleness , crime , want , and misery than all other causes put together . " Nor have such utterances been less pro- nounced in our own country . The common sentiment as to the vice of in- temperance was well ...
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... abundantly content with this limitation . Let us , then , see what burdens the drinking habit ( for this more exactly than intemperance describes the evil ) imposes upon society . CHAPTER II . WASTE . A PART of the waste Preliminary . 15.
... abundantly content with this limitation . Let us , then , see what burdens the drinking habit ( for this more exactly than intemperance describes the evil ) imposes upon society . CHAPTER II . WASTE . A PART of the waste Preliminary . 15.
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... drinking of intoxicants causes us , is not dif- ficult of approximate estimation . DIRECT COST . Dr. Edward Young , the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the Treasury Department , esti- mates the sales of liquors in the United States ...
... drinking of intoxicants causes us , is not dif- ficult of approximate estimation . DIRECT COST . Dr. Edward Young , the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the Treasury Department , esti- mates the sales of liquors in the United States ...
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... drink bill . Let us look a moment at what we spend for enlightening our intellects in comparison with what we spend for muddling them . The total income of all the schools of learning , public and private , from every source , for the ...
... drink bill . Let us look a moment at what we spend for enlightening our intellects in comparison with what we spend for muddling them . The total income of all the schools of learning , public and private , from every source , for the ...
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Page 119 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self -protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 14 - Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 68 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 185 - No man, nor corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public...
Page 125 - Whenever, in short, there is a definite damage, or a definite risk of damage, either to an individual or to the public, the case is taken out of the province of liberty, and placed in that of morality or law.
Page 266 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Page 200 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person who shall be injured in person or property or means of support, by any intoxicated person...
Page 128 - The higher the state of civilization, the more completely do the actions of one member of the social body influence all the rest, and the less possible is it for any one man to do a wrong thing without interfering, more or less, with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.
Page 105 - It is not necessary, for the sake of justifying the State legislation now under consideration, to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism and crime which have their origin in the use or abuse of ardent spirits.
Page 205 - Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax upon a breach of the Ten Commandments? Would not such a tax be wicked and scandalous ; because it would imply an.