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Page 96
... license will appear the chief anomaly of the present age . The numberless minute prescriptions and interdicts of our law - books , and their silence on the crime of the liquor traffic , will make it difficult for coming ages to ...
... license will appear the chief anomaly of the present age . The numberless minute prescriptions and interdicts of our law - books , and their silence on the crime of the liquor traffic , will make it difficult for coming ages to ...
Page 105
... licensed houses , and magisterial control of licenses , has been a conspicuous failure . For a short time after the passing of Lord Aberdare's act , hopes were entertained of great results from the provisions for early closing , and ...
... licensed houses , and magisterial control of licenses , has been a conspicuous failure . For a short time after the passing of Lord Aberdare's act , hopes were entertained of great results from the provisions for early closing , and ...
Page 131
... license - houses , and impart , in short , a better character to the whole trade . . . . The result of this experiment did not con- firm the expectation of its promoters . The sale of beer was increased , but the sale of spirituous ...
... license - houses , and impart , in short , a better character to the whole trade . . . . The result of this experiment did not con- firm the expectation of its promoters . The sale of beer was increased , but the sale of spirituous ...
Page 133
... licensed in Paris and New Or- leans , that vice could not there be made disgraceful ; and where prostitution , even ... license and ferocious barbarism . The laws of a country may reconcile public sentiment to crimes , even the most ...
... licensed in Paris and New Or- leans , that vice could not there be made disgraceful ; and where prostitution , even ... license and ferocious barbarism . The laws of a country may reconcile public sentiment to crimes , even the most ...
Page 135
... License - laws , " says Judge Pitman , " carry to the popular mind the implication that , although the traffic in intoxicants is an exceptional one , requiring some special safeguards , yet that there is a legitimate public demand for ...
... License - laws , " says Judge Pitman , " carry to the popular mind the implication that , although the traffic in intoxicants is an exceptional one , requiring some special safeguards , yet that there is a legitimate public demand for ...
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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.