Rev. G. B. Ide, D. D., of Springfield. Prof. J. B. S. Jackson, M. D., of Boston, (Shattuck Professor of Morbid Anatomy in the Medical School of Harvard College.) Rev. John Jones, of Pelham. Col. John Kurtz, of Boston, (Chief of Police of the city.) Wm. M. Lathrop, Esq., of Boston. Rev. Thomas R. Lambert, of Charlestown. Louis Lapham, Esq., of Fall River, (Judge of the Police Court of that city.) Hon. George Lewis, of Roxbury, (Mayor of that city.) Hon. D. Waldo Lincoln, of Worcester, (Ex-Mayor of that city.) Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., of Boston, (Ex-Mayor of the city.) Rev. Increase S. Lincoln, of Warwick. Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D. D., of Boston. Rev. J. C. Lovejoy, of Cambridge. Hon. Alfred Macy, of Nantucket. enry A. Marsh, Esq., of Amherst. Samuel F. McCleary, Esq., of Boston, (City Clerk.) Rev. Lawrence McMahon, of New Bedford. Hon. William S. Messervy, of Salem, (Ex-Mayor of that city.) Rev. Rollin H. Neale, D. D., of Boston. Hon. Otis Norcross, of Boston, (Mayor of the city.) Rev. J. B. O'Hagan, of Boston. P. L. Page, Esq., of Pittsfield, (Judge of the Police Court of that town.) Hon. Henry W. Paine, of Cambridge. Hon. John C. Park, of Boston. Charles Henry Parker, Esq., of Boston, (Manager of the Suffolk Institution for Savings.) Hon. Joel Parker, of Cambridge, (Royall Professor in the Law School of Harvard College; formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New Hampshire.) E. B. Patch, Esq., of Lowell. Prof. Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., LL. D., of Cambridge, (Preacher to the University, and Plummer Professor of Christian Doctrine and Morals in Harvard College.) Hon. J. H. Perry, of New Bedford, (Mayor of that city.) Chase Philbrick, Esq., of Lawrence, (Municipal Marshal of that city.) Edward L. Pierce, Esq., of Milton, (District-Attorney for the South-Eastern District.) Rev. John Power, of Worcester. Rev. George Putnam, D. D., of Roxbury. Hon. George C. Richardson, of Cambridge, (Ex-Mayor of that city; Pres. of the Board of Trade of the city of Boston.) Rev. John P. Robinson, of Boston. Hon. Charles Russell, of Princeton. Hon. Charles Theodore Russell, of Cambridge, (Ex-Mayor of that city.) Hon. George P. Sanger, of Boston, (District-Attorney for Suffolk County.) Edward A. Savage, Esq., of Boston, (Deputy-Chief of Police of the city.) Rev. Thomas Shehan, of Taunton. J. E. Souchard, Esq., French Consul at Boston. Prof. D. Humphreys Storer, M. D., of Boston, (Professor of Obstetrics and of Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical School of Harvard College.) Rev. Patrick Strain, of Lynn. Rev. Edward T. Taylor, D. D., of Boston, (Pastor at the Seamens' Bethel in that city.) Minot Tirrell, Jr., Esq., of Lynn. Rev. John Todd, D. D., of Pittsfield. Rev. John E. Todd, of Boston. Hon. G. Washington Warren, of Charlestown, (Judge of the Police Court, and Ex-Mayor of that city.) Hon. Emory Washburn, of Cambridge, (Bussey Professor in the Law School of Harvard College; Ex-Governor of the Commonwealth; and formerly Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.) Rev. E. M. P. Wells, of Boston, (Rector of St. Stephen's Church.) Prof. James C. White, M. D., of Boston, (Assistant-Professor of Chemistry in Harvard College.) H. W. B. Wightman, Esq., of Chelmsford, Hon. Joseph M. Wightman, of Boston, Rev. Thomas Worcester, D. D., of Boston. In support of the petition of the College of Pharmacy, which was represented by Messrs. Thomas Hollis, President, Samuel M. Colcord, Vice-President, and Henry W. Lincoln, Recording Secretary, as a special committee of its Board of Trustees, the following gentlemen appeared as witnesses Charles Edward Buckingham, M. D., Charles C. Bixby, of North Bridgewater, Isaac T. Campbell, of Boston, (Examiner of Drugs.) S. M. Colcord, of Boston, Apothecary, (Vice-President of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.) Thomas Hollis, Apothecary, Boston, (President of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.). James L. Hunt, Apothecary, (Town Liquor Agent of Hingham.) Henry W. Lincoln, Apothecary, Boston, (Recording Secretary of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.) William T Rand, Dedham, (Formerly an apothecary.) Sampson Reed, Druggist, (Formerly an Alderman of Boston.) Frank W. Simmons, Apothecary, Boston. The opening argument for the Remonstrants was then made by Hon. Asahel Huntington, who was followed by William B. Spooner, Esq., and after the examination of their witnesses, the Rev. A. A. Miner, on Tuesday, April 2d, delivered the closing argument in their behalf. He was followed, on Wednesday, April 3, by Hon. John A. Andrew, in behalf of the Petitioners, who closed the hearing with the following ARGUMENT. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee:— A measure so extreme and unusual as the statute of Massachusetts-prohibiting the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors, notwithstanding that they are confessedly commercial articles-can rest only on some proposition in science or morals of corresponding sweep. And, although our legislation is not entirely consistent in its details with any theory, yet it does in fact rest on a theory which involves these two positions, viz.: The essentially poisonous character of alcoholic beverages, and The immorality of their use. It assumes that any law which permits (and regulates) their sale is "immoral and an educator of immorality."* I. The advocates of Prohibition base their argument in part upon the assumption that alcohol is a poison, in the sense in which strychnine or arsenic is poison, to be administered to the human system only * Minority Report of 1866, House Document 359, p. 33. |