Selected Articles on Prohibition of the Liquor TrafficLamar Taney Beman H.W. Wilson Company, 1915 - 168 pages |
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Page xix
... sentiment will not enforce a state - wide Prohi- bition law . I. No law will be obeyed unless it has back of it the force of public opinion . 2. Few of our states are so homogeneous in popula- tion that all parts of the state will favor ...
... sentiment will not enforce a state - wide Prohi- bition law . I. No law will be obeyed unless it has back of it the force of public opinion . 2. Few of our states are so homogeneous in popula- tion that all parts of the state will favor ...
Page xxi
... sentiment on the liquor question . This material may be obtained , much of it free , by writing the following addresses : For Affirmative Material Anti - Saloon League of America , Westerville , O. There are branch offices of the league ...
... sentiment on the liquor question . This material may be obtained , much of it free , by writing the following addresses : For Affirmative Material Anti - Saloon League of America , Westerville , O. There are branch offices of the league ...
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... 695-704 . Je . '15 . The Drink Trade and State Purchase . Thomas P. Whittaker . Cosmopolitan . 44 : 492-6 . Ap . '08 . Prohibition Sentiment and Recent Legislative Enactment in this Country . Arthur Bris- bane BIBLIOGRAPHY xxxi.
... 695-704 . Je . '15 . The Drink Trade and State Purchase . Thomas P. Whittaker . Cosmopolitan . 44 : 492-6 . Ap . '08 . Prohibition Sentiment and Recent Legislative Enactment in this Country . Arthur Bris- bane BIBLIOGRAPHY xxxi.
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... sentiment is strongly in its favor . Promoted the invention and adoption of many useful restric- tions . Failures : Has failed to exclude intoxicants completely even from districts where public sentiment has been favorable . Has failed ...
... sentiment is strongly in its favor . Promoted the invention and adoption of many useful restric- tions . Failures : Has failed to exclude intoxicants completely even from districts where public sentiment has been favorable . Has failed ...
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... sentiment of the jury in the jury box . Prohibition does not prohibit . It is much easier to enforce the law where the unit is small . It has not been a success in the Prohibition states . II . Party interest . The Democratic party is ...
... sentiment of the jury in the jury box . Prohibition does not prohibit . It is much easier to enforce the law where the unit is small . It has not been a success in the Prohibition states . II . Party interest . The Democratic party is ...
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Page 81 - But the possession and enjoyment of all rights are subject to such reasonable conditions as may be deemed by the governing authority of the country essential to the safety, health, peace, good order, and morals of the community.
Page 73 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 162 - 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.
Page 162 - ... 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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others to do so would be wise or even right.
Page 5 - The bill passed both houses of the legislature, but was vetoed by the governor because Ch.
Page 136 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Page 162 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 162 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, 559 or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to some one else.
Page 123 - It is not enough that honest men are appointed judges. All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgment is warped by that influence. To this bias add that of the esprit de corps, of their peculiar maxim and creed, that "it is the office of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction...
Page 82 - By the general concurrence of opinion of every civilized and Christian community, there are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dram shop, where intoxicating liquors, in Small quantities, to be drunk at the time, are sold indiscriminately to all parties applying.