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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Page 13
... 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 expressed in ...
... 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 expressed in ...
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... produced eight per cent . more goods than we did in the same months in 1868 with 400 men . We attribute this large falling off entirely to the repeal of the prohibit- ory law and the great increase in the use of intoxicat- ing liquors ...
... produced eight per cent . more goods than we did in the same months in 1868 with 400 men . We attribute this large falling off entirely to the repeal of the prohibit- ory law and the great increase in the use of intoxicat- ing liquors ...
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... producing the allied evil and even nuisance of vagrancy , is given in the answer from the city of Springfield : " In addition to circular , I would say that we have lodged and fed eight thousand and fifty - two persons that we call ...
... producing the allied evil and even nuisance of vagrancy , is given in the answer from the city of Springfield : " In addition to circular , I would say that we have lodged and fed eight thousand and fifty - two persons that we call ...
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... produce drunkenness is a cause of disease and death , is too obvious and univer- sally admitted to allow of argument . Of course , if it shortens life it renders health less perfect while life lasts . But perhaps few who assent to these ...
... produce drunkenness is a cause of disease and death , is too obvious and univer- sally admitted to allow of argument . Of course , if it shortens life it renders health less perfect while life lasts . But perhaps few who assent to these ...
Page 37
... there is no greater cause of evil , moral and physical , in this coun- try than the use of alcoholic beverages . I do not mean by this that extreme indulgence which produces drunkenness . Injury to Public Health . 37.
... there is no greater cause of evil , moral and physical , in this coun- try than the use of alcoholic beverages . I do not mean by this that extreme indulgence which produces drunkenness . Injury to Public Health . 37.
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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.