"Dry" America: Its Significance to CeylonGanesh & Company, 1921 - 165 pages |
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Page 41 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be Inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 2 - ... this whiskey is deposited, the white man who sells it, tells them to take a little drink; some of them will say 'no, I do not want it...
Page 33 - Is intended, by any person Interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold', or in any manner used, either In the original package or otherwise. In violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the Jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Page 41 - SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the...
Page 2 - I do not want it ; they go on till they come to another house, where they find more of the same kind of drink ; it is there offered again ; they refuse ; and again the third time; but finally, the fourth or fifth time...
Page 10 - Your committee are not only of opinion that the law giving the right to sell ardent spirits should be repealed, but that a law should be passed to prohibit the traffic in them ; except so far as the arts or the practice of medicine may be concerned.
Page 41 - ... should be discouraged,' and, at its meeting in June, 1921, had adopted a resolution saying 'reproach has been brought upon the medical profession by some of its members, who have misused the law which permits the prescription of alcohol.' With this as the situation to be met, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives reported with favorable recommendation the bill which became the Act of November 23, 1921, whereby the prescription of intoxicating malt liquor for medicinal purposes...
Page 40 - Joint Resolution. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 1 - Brothers and friends — When your forefathers first met on this island, your red brethren were very numerous; but, since the introduction amongst us of what you call spirituous liquors, and what we think may justly be called poison, our numbers are greatly diminished. It has destroyed a great part of your red brethren. " My friends and brothers — We plainly perceive that you see the very evil which destroys your red brethren.
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| Title | "Dry" America: Its Significance to Ceylon |
| Author | Saint Nihal Singh |
| Publisher | Ganesh & Company, 1921 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Oct 2005 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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