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Page 72
... traffic under- mines the basis of his authority , and thereby the authority of the law itself . It is wholly certain that larceny and perjury combined do not damage the State the hundredth part as much as the curse of the poison - vice ...
... traffic under- mines the basis of his authority , and thereby the authority of the law itself . It is wholly certain that larceny and perjury combined do not damage the State the hundredth part as much as the curse of the poison - vice ...
Page 73
... traffic , but they had to deal with whisky alone . Since then our foreign immigrants have introduced ale , lager beer , and French high wines , and threaten to introduce absinthe and opium . The poison - vice has assumed the magnitude ...
... traffic , but they had to deal with whisky alone . Since then our foreign immigrants have introduced ale , lager beer , and French high wines , and threaten to introduce absinthe and opium . The poison - vice has assumed the magnitude ...
Page 75
... traffic , but still , on the whole , amounting to a loss of national re- sources . The waste of the remaining fifty per cent could be prevented by prohibition . In ten years the saving of that sum and its application to useful purposes ...
... traffic , but still , on the whole , amounting to a loss of national re- sources . The waste of the remaining fifty per cent could be prevented by prohibition . In ten years the saving of that sum and its application to useful purposes ...
Page 89
... traffic . It requires only your own experience and observation to convince you that it is upon the medi- cal profession , upon their prescriptions and recom- mendations for its use upon so many occasions , that ALCOHOLIC DRUGS . 89.
... traffic . It requires only your own experience and observation to convince you that it is upon the medi- cal profession , upon their prescriptions and recom- mendations for its use upon so many occasions , that ALCOHOLIC DRUGS . 89.
Page 90
... traffic entails upon society , and it is because the rum - seller and the rum- drinker hide under this cloak of seeming respecta- bility that they are so difficult to reach , either by moral suasion or by law . As a result of thirty ...
... traffic entails upon society , and it is because the rum - seller and the rum- drinker hide under this cloak of seeming respecta- bility that they are so difficult to reach , either by moral suasion or by law . As a result of thirty ...
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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.