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" 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. "
Alcohol and the State: A Discussion of the Problem of Law as Applied to the ... - Page 105
by Robert Carter Pitman - 1877 - 411 pages
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Bioletti Pamphlet Collection on Temperance, Volume 9

1830 - 602 pages
...and sufficiently presented in this opinion, as you will readily perceive in the following passage : "It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent to tlie correction of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 10

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1852 - 688 pages
...altogether." The following passage from Justice Grier's opinion in the same case is very satisfactory : "It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...police power, which is exclusively in the State, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or prohibition...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 5; Volume 46

United States. Supreme Court - 1847 - 668 pages
...interference. It is not necessary for the sake of justifymg 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. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alor"? competent...
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Journal of Proceedings

Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - 1852 - 718 pages
...array the appalling statistics of misery, pnu]>eiism and crime, which have their origin in the use or abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the state?, i» alone competent to the correction of these great evils; and all measures of re•train t or prohibition...
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A Review, by a Layman: Of a Work Entitled, "New Themes for the Protestant ...

Samuel Austin ALLIBONE - 1852 - 170 pages
...dollars. 10. It has made 200,000 widows, and one million of orphan children." Mr. Justice Grier said : " It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits." Let us look at our own state, in this respect. Bishop Potter says — after referring to the sums expended...
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The Temperance Reformation: Its History, from the Organization of the First ...

Lebbeus Armstrong - 1853 - 812 pages
...insure him — a sale independently of the laws and polity of the State." And Mr. Justice GRIER said : " It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...pauperism, and crime, which have their origin in the use or abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 6; Volume 36

1854 - 652 pages
...discretionary power to jndge of its limits, and may go to the length of prohibiting sales altogether." Said Justice Grier : — " It is not necessary to array...abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exelusively in the state, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils ; and ull, measures...
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Documentary History of the Maine Law: Comprising the Original Maine Law, the ...

1855 - 152 pages
...prohibiting altogether.'' —5 Howard, 6; 11. Judge GRIER gave his opinion in the following language : " It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...pauperism, and crime which have their origin in the use or abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent...
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An Argument Legal and Historical for the Legislative Prohibition of the ...

Frederic Richard Lees - 1856 - 354 pages
...destruction of property : — " It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, panperism, and crime, which have their origin in the use and...spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils; and all measures of restraint of...
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An Argument for the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic

Frederic Richard Lees - 1857 - 350 pages
...asserted both the right of prohibiting sale, and that of the seizure and destruction of property : — " It is not necessary to array the appalling statistics...spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils; and all measures of restraint or...
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