Proceedings of the ... National Temperance Convention, Volume 10, Part 1891J.N. Stearns, 1891 |
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... citizens from voting against them , which has even struck down in broad daylight those opposed to their nefarious schemes , the High - License craze which has swept over the country , the perplexity occasioned by Supreme Court decisions ...
... citizens from voting against them , which has even struck down in broad daylight those opposed to their nefarious schemes , the High - License craze which has swept over the country , the perplexity occasioned by Supreme Court decisions ...
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... citizens . Nor church , nor state , nor school , nor fireside is free from its breath of foulness . Every form of evil it nourishes ; every element of good it opposes . We lift our hands against it , and unite our strength to secure its ...
... citizens . Nor church , nor state , nor school , nor fireside is free from its breath of foulness . Every form of evil it nourishes ; every element of good it opposes . We lift our hands against it , and unite our strength to secure its ...
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... citizen . It legalizes wrong . Again , it makes the State a partner in this crime . This is , it seems to me , the strongest argument that can be used . men favor it because they think it is a step in the right direction , or something ...
... citizen . It legalizes wrong . Again , it makes the State a partner in this crime . This is , it seems to me , the strongest argument that can be used . men favor it because they think it is a step in the right direction , or something ...
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... citizen and the voter . It brings in a direct , responsible way the question to every voter , Shall there be license or no license ? It does not have to filter through the ordinary legislature . It comes right home to every individual ...
... citizen and the voter . It brings in a direct , responsible way the question to every voter , Shall there be license or no license ? It does not have to filter through the ordinary legislature . It comes right home to every individual ...
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... citizens of the country , and show them that there is a possibility of throwing off the incubus of this liquor oli- garchy . So many well - meaning men , accustomed to the domina- tion of the liquor rule , have settled down in an ...
... citizens of the country , and show them that there is a possibility of throwing off the incubus of this liquor oli- garchy . So many well - meaning men , accustomed to the domina- tion of the liquor rule , have settled down in an ...
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Page 197 - You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time...
Page 162 - There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail ; it is not a privilege of a citizen of the State or of a citizen of the United States. As it is a business attended with danger to the community it may, as already said, be entirely prohibited, or be permitted under such conditions as will limit to the utmost its evils.
Page 188 - it is remarkable that all the diseases from drinking spirituous or fermented liquors are liable to become hereditary, even to the third generation, gradually increasing, if the cause be continued, till the family becomes extinct."* We need not endeavour to trace farther the remote causes of drunkenness.
Page 178 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 32 - Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 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 53 - ... shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals and the public safety, may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, established by statistics accessible to every one, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are, in some degree at least, traceable to this evil.
Page 166 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution be, and hereby is, proposed to the states to become valid as a part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several states as provided by the Constitution: ARTICLE "SECTION 1.
Page 175 - A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God ; And from its force nor doors nor locks Can shield you; — 'tis the ballot-box.
Page 198 - 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. Government is organized with a view to their preservation, and cannot divest itself of the power to provide for them.
Page 154 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.