The Temperance Movement: Or, The Conflict Between Man and AlcoholW. E. Smythe Company, 1887 - 583 pages |
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Page xi
... EFFECT OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY AND SOUL . Liquor as an Article of Commerce - Alcohol in the Body - Im- portance of Medical Testimony - The Development of Drunk- enness during the Past Three Centuries- The Experiments of Lallemand ...
... EFFECT OF ALCOHOL UPON THE HUMAN BODY AND SOUL . Liquor as an Article of Commerce - Alcohol in the Body - Im- portance of Medical Testimony - The Development of Drunk- enness during the Past Three Centuries- The Experiments of Lallemand ...
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... Effect on the Heart and Other Organs - How Disease is Originated - When the Memory becomes a Victim of the Habit ... Effects on its Devotees - The Cruel Results which have followed the wide use of Beer - How Old Appetites have been ...
... Effect on the Heart and Other Organs - How Disease is Originated - When the Memory becomes a Victim of the Habit ... Effects on its Devotees - The Cruel Results which have followed the wide use of Beer - How Old Appetites have been ...
Page xiv
... Effect of the Drink- ing Habit on the Skilled Trades Wages and the Money Spent for Drinks - Some Considerations ... Effects of Alcohol An Invoice of the Stock in Trade of an Industry of Destruc- tion - The Claim that Temperance ...
... Effect of the Drink- ing Habit on the Skilled Trades Wages and the Money Spent for Drinks - Some Considerations ... Effects of Alcohol An Invoice of the Stock in Trade of an Industry of Destruc- tion - The Claim that Temperance ...
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... effect similar to the discovery of artificial fire . If Prometheus brought the one from heaven , Bacchus , who was the god of intoxication , and held full rank with the celestial representatives of love and war , must have brought his ...
... effect similar to the discovery of artificial fire . If Prometheus brought the one from heaven , Bacchus , who was the god of intoxication , and held full rank with the celestial representatives of love and war , must have brought his ...
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... effect that distillation was known before the dawn of authentic history . But the matter is not important to us . The specific gravity of alcohol is 792 as compared with water 1000 - about four - fifths the weight of water . Alcohol is ...
... effect that distillation was known before the dawn of authentic history . But the matter is not important to us . The specific gravity of alcohol is 792 as compared with water 1000 - about four - fifths the weight of water . Alcohol is ...
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Page 499 - While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Page 500 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 536 - ... county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Page 430 - And if any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, and calculated to produce idleness, vice, or debauchery, I see nothing in the constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether, if it thinks proper.
Page 544 - If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the constitution.
Page 549 - No legislature can bargain away the public health or the public morals. The people themselves cannot do it, much less their servants. The supervision of both these subjects of governmental power is continuing in its nature, and they are to be dealt with as the special exigencies of the moment may require.
Page 500 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God : Which made heaven, and earth, The sea, and all that therein is : Which keepeth truth for ever: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : Which giveth food to the hungry.
Page 547 - ... if the government refrains from the absolute conversion of real property to the uses of the public it can destroy its value entirely, can inflict irreparable and permanent injury to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because, in the narrowest sense of the word, it is not taken for the public use.
Page 552 - They cannot only prevent nuisances that are threatened, and before irreparable mischief ensues, but arrest or abate those in progress, and, by perpetual injunction, protect the public against them in the future; whereas, courts of law can only reach existing nuisances, leaving future acts to be the subject of new prosecutions or proceedings. This is a salutary jurisdiction, especially where a nuisance affects the health, morals, or safety of the community. Though not frequently exercised, the power...
Page 542 - Nor can it be said that government interferes with or impairs any one's constitutional rights of liberty or of property when it determines that the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, for general or individual use, as a beverage, are, or may become, hurtful to society, and constitute, therefore, a business in which no one may lawfully engage.