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Page 71
... amounts to a full $ 100,000,000 . The mag- istrates of our city courts have to waste half their time on the trial of drunkards . On the blackboards of our metropolitan station - houses , " D. D. C. " after the name of a prisoner means ...
... amounts to a full $ 100,000,000 . The mag- istrates of our city courts have to waste half their time on the trial of drunkards . On the blackboards of our metropolitan station - houses , " D. D. C. " after the name of a prisoner means ...
Page 74
... amount of rum - begotten distress relieved by private charity , nor the rum percentage of undetected crime , nor yet the wholly incalculable value of the benefac- tions , reforms , and improvements prevented by the use of intoxicating ...
... amount of rum - begotten distress relieved by private charity , nor the rum percentage of undetected crime , nor yet the wholly incalculable value of the benefac- tions , reforms , and improvements prevented by the use of intoxicating ...
Page 101
... amount of sales has been reduced as much as five - fold -a result which has been far exceeded , even under the present imperfect system of legal control . " In the course of my duty as an internal revenue officer , " says Superintendent ...
... amount of sales has been reduced as much as five - fold -a result which has been far exceeded , even under the present imperfect system of legal control . " In the course of my duty as an internal revenue officer , " says Superintendent ...
Page 105
... so in the night , was not sufficient to reduce materially the quantity of liquor consumed , or the consequent amount of drunkenness . ” — “ Fortnightly Review . " dress of the unavoidably resulting mischief , the cure and.
... so in the night , was not sufficient to reduce materially the quantity of liquor consumed , or the consequent amount of drunkenness . ” — “ Fortnightly Review . " dress of the unavoidably resulting mischief , the cure and.
Page 138
... - vailed , and always will prevail , over any amount of self - interest or material power arrayed on the other side . " - Prof . Goldwin Smith . THE END . Health Primers . Edited by J. LANGDON Down , M. 138 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... - vailed , and always will prevail , over any amount of self - interest or material power arrayed on the other side . " - Prof . Goldwin Smith . THE END . Health Primers . Edited by J. LANGDON Down , M. 138 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.