Amendment to the Constitution Prohibiting Intoxicating Liquors, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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Page 48 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 13 - I would like to call the attention of the members of the committee to the fact that this bill is a preparatory bill. It authorizes the departments to negotiate with the owners of the canal, but they must come back to Congress' before any expenditure can be made and for the approval of any negotiations which they agree to.
Page 64 - If the public safety or the public morals require the discontinuance of any manufacture or traffic, the hand of the legislature cannot be stayed from providing for its discontinuance by any incidental inconvenience which individuals or corporations may suffer.
Page 64 - 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. 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 prohibition necessary to effect the purpose are within the scope of that authority.
Page 26 - 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.
Page 21 - SECTION 1. The sale, manufacture for sale, transportation for sale, importation for sale, and exportation for sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof are forever prohibited.
Page 62 - ... to all the objects of government within the territorial limits of the State, the American system is one of complete decentralization, the primary and vital idea of which is, that local affairs shall be managed by local authorities, and general affairs only by the central authority. It was under the control of this idea that a national constitution was formed, under which the States, while yielding to the national government complete and exclusive jurisdiction over external affairs, conferred...
Page 63 - Should that catastrophe happen, let it have no history ! Let the horrible narrative never be written ! Let its fate be like that of the lost books of Livy, which no human eye shall ever read ; or the missing Pleiad, of which no man can ever know more, than that it is lost, and lost forever!
Page 65 - There is in this position an assumption of a fact which does not exist— that when the liquors are taken in excess, the injuries are confined to the party offending. The injury, it is...
Page 28 - Our dual form of government has its perplexities, state and nation having different spheres of jurisdiction, as we have said, but it must be kept in mind that we are one people; and the powers reserved to the states and those conferred on the nation are adapted to be exercised, whether independently or concurrently, to promote the general welfare, material and moral.