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... PROHIBITION . • • The problem of ages - History of the temperance movement - Zoro- aster , Pythagoras , Mohammed - The sphere of legislation - Vices and crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression ...
... PROHIBITION . • • The problem of ages - History of the temperance movement - Zoro- aster , Pythagoras , Mohammed - The sphere of legislation - Vices and crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression ...
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Felix Leopold Oswald. the idea of enjoyment and recreation . Would the opponents of prohibition attempt to deny that anal- ogous influences ( the custom of " treating " friends at a public bar , the spectacle of lager - beer orgies in ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. the idea of enjoyment and recreation . Would the opponents of prohibition attempt to deny that anal- ogous influences ( the custom of " treating " friends at a public bar , the spectacle of lager - beer orgies in ...
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... Prohibition would put a stop to one half of that prodigious waste . We will not delude ourselves with the hope that the deep - rooted habit of the stimulant- vice could at once be wholly eradicated by any legis 74 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... Prohibition would put a stop to one half of that prodigious waste . We will not delude ourselves with the hope that the deep - rooted habit of the stimulant- vice could at once be wholly eradicated by any legis 74 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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... prohibition . In ten years the saving of that sum and its application to useful purposes would transform the moral and physical condition of our country . With $ 5,000,000,000 we could construct ten bridges over every one of our hundred ...
... prohibition . In ten years the saving of that sum and its application to useful purposes would transform the moral and physical condition of our country . With $ 5,000,000,000 we could construct ten bridges over every one of our hundred ...
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... will all look back with wonder and surprise to find that they , as individuals and as members of an honored profession , should have been so far compromised . " CHAPTER VI . PROHIBITION . " Rugged or not , 90 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... will all look back with wonder and surprise to find that they , as individuals and as members of an honored profession , should have been so far compromised . " CHAPTER VI . PROHIBITION . " Rugged or not , 90 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause and Cure of Intemperance Felix Leopold Oswald No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 85 - The alcohol does not relieve the individual from cold by increasing his temperature ; nor from heat by cooling him ; nor from weakness and exhaustion by nourishing his tissues ; nor yet from affliction by increasing his nerve...
Page 85 - ... and thereby lessening his consciousness of impressions, whether from cold, or heat, or weariness, or pain. In other words, the presence of the alcohol has not in any degree lessened the effects of the evils to which he is exposed, but has diminished his consciousness of their existence, and thereby impaired his judgment concerning the degree of their action upon him.
Page 101 - In the course of my duty as internal revenue officer, I have become thoroughly acquainted with the state and extent of the liquor traffic in Maine, and I have no hesitation in saying that the beer trade is not more than one per cent. of what I remember it to have been, and the trade in distilled liquors is not more than ten per cent. of what it was formerly. . . . When liquor is sold at all, it is done secretly, through fear of the law.