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abstainers alcoholic beverages alcoholic liquors amendment American Issue amount Anti-Saloon League argument average beer bition breweries capital cause cent cities citizens Collier's Committee of Fifty compensation Congress constitution consumption crime criminal death rate distilled divorce dollars drinkers drunkenness effect enforcement Everybody's Magazine evil fact favor federal gallons Harper's Weekly hate hibition Holman Day increase industry insanity intemperance intoxicants intoxicating liquors labor legislation liberty license liquor dealer liquor interests Liquor Problem liquor traffic liquor trust Literary Digest living manufacture and sale ment moral National Prohibition Nebraska North American Review North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Outlook pauperism persons poison police political population produced Prohi Prohibition law prohibitory law reform result revenue Russia sale of liquor saloon sell sentiment social society South state-wide Prohibition statistics Statutory Temperance Temperance Movement tion town United vote West Virginia whisky wine
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Page 190 - And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Page 79 - 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 71 - 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 160 - 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 160 - ... 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 3 - The bill passed both houses of the legislature, but was vetoed by the governor because Ch.
Page 134 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Page 160 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 80 - 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 121 - 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 offtce of a good Judge to enlarge his jurisdiction...