Right and Duty of Prohibition: Argument Before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, in the Hall of the House of RepresentativesWright & Potter, printers, 1867 - Всего страниц: 122 |
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abstinence alcoholic beverages alcoholic liquors alcoholic preparations alleged Amherst College apothecaries asked authority Barnstable Barnstable County Berkshire Board Boston Herald cause cent Chairman Christian citizens city of Boston Committee Common Commonwealth crime criminal Deaths from Intemperance declared delirium tremens disease drunkards drunkenness effect Emory Washburn enactment evidence evils executed fact Faneuil Hall favor fermented France gentlemen grape habits hand Hospital human hundred indulgence influence insane intoxicating beverages intoxicating liquors Judge Sanger learned counsel Legislature license law liquor traffic liquor-sellers liquors as beverages Lowell lunatics Massachusetts Medical medicinal Member moral Nantucket Counties OLIVER AMES open sale opinion perance petitioners population pounds sterling present law prisons prohibition prohibitory law pulpit question regard remonstrances respect restrain sale of liquors sell social society stringent Suffolk County teetotaler temperance testified testimony thousand tion total abstinence town twenty various Williams College wine witnesses
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Стр. 75 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Стр. 80 - And now for the definition of these "social rights." "If anything invades my social rights, certainly the traffic in strong drink does. It destroys my primary right of security, by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder. It invades my right of equality, by deriving a profit from the creation of a misery, I am taxed to support. It impedes my right to free moral and intellectual development, by surrounding my path with dangers, and by weakening and demoralizing society, from which I have...
Стр. 46 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Стр. 33 - The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, but entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the ordinary calls of duty.
Стр. 54 - That the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, &c., &c.
Стр. 55 - ... 3. That persons accustomed to such drinks may, with perfect safety, discontinue them entirely, either at once, or gradually after a short time. "4. That Total and Universal Abstinence from Alcoholic beverages of all sorts would greatly contribute to the health, the prosperity, the morality, and the happiness of the human race.
Стр. 80 - social rights," the like of which probably never before found its way into distinct language — being nothing short of this — that it is the absolute social right of every individual, that every other individual shall act in every respect exactly as he ought; that...
Стр. 32 - Drunkenness is the most fertile source of crime; and if it could be removed, the assizes of the country would be rendered mere nullities.
Стр. 45 - The truth is, that medicine, professedly founded on observation, is as sensitive to outside influences, political, religious, philosophical, imaginative, as is the barometer to the changes of atmospheric density.
Стр. 23 - Out of upwards of twenty-three millions of bricks made in 1841 by the largest maker in the neighborhood, the average per man made by the beerdrinkers in the season was 760,269; whilst the average for the teetotalers was 795,400, which is 85.131 in favor of the latter.