The Errors of Prohibition: An Argument Delivered in the Representatives' Hall, Boston, April 3, 1867, Before a Joint Special Committee of the General Court of MassachusettsTicknor & Fields, 1867 - Всего страниц: 148 |
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... ' Hall , in the State House , at Boston . The opening argument for the Petitioners was made by Hon . LINUS CHILD , and the following witnesses were called , sworn and examined in their behalf : - John Q. Adams , Esq . , of Quincy , 4.
... ' Hall , in the State House , at Boston . The opening argument for the Petitioners was made by Hon . LINUS CHILD , and the following witnesses were called , sworn and examined in their behalf : - John Q. Adams , Esq . , of Quincy , 4.
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... called natural , ben- eficial ; the stimulus of alcohol seems selected for special reprobation without cause being shown , except that people choose to say it is not natural . How not natural ? The phrase can have two significations ...
... called natural , ben- eficial ; the stimulus of alcohol seems selected for special reprobation without cause being shown , except that people choose to say it is not natural . How not natural ? The phrase can have two significations ...
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... called wine the milk of the old , ' and scientific philosophy owns the propriety of the term . If it does not nourish the old so directly as milk nourishes the young , yet it certainly does aid in supporting and filling up their failing ...
... called wine the milk of the old , ' and scientific philosophy owns the propriety of the term . If it does not nourish the old so directly as milk nourishes the young , yet it certainly does aid in supporting and filling up their failing ...
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... called upon to yield to the mere force of agitation . " And just a dozen years ago , Dr. James Jackson , the venerable , beloved and most eminent Nestor of the medical profession in America , bore this public testimony concerning the ...
... called upon to yield to the mere force of agitation . " And just a dozen years ago , Dr. James Jackson , the venerable , beloved and most eminent Nestor of the medical profession in America , bore this public testimony concerning the ...
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... called the subject as it is presented by Lallemand , to the attention of Dr. James C. White , the learned assistant - professor of chemistry in Harvard College . The report made by that gentleman , confirms the belief , in which Anstie ...
... called the subject as it is presented by Lallemand , to the attention of Dr. James C. White , the learned assistant - professor of chemistry in Harvard College . The report made by that gentleman , confirms the belief , in which Anstie ...
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Стр. 129 - ... belongs. Selling fermented liquors, however, is trading, and trading is a social act. But the infringement complained of is not on the liberty of the seller, but on that of the buyer and consumer; since the State might just as well forbid him to drink wine, as purposely make it impossible for him to obtain it. The Secretary, however, says, 'I claim, as a citizen, a right to legislate whenever my social rights are invaded by the social act of another.
Стр. 57 - Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days, for the purpose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped. A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an over.driven ox.
Стр. 57 - The prisons were hells on earth, seminaries of every crime, and of every disease. At the assizes, the lean and yellow culprits brought with them from their cells to the dock an atmosphere of stench and pestilence which sometimes avenged them signally on bench, bar, and jury.
Стр. 147 - Banish all objects of lust, shut up all youth into the severest discipline that can be exercised in any hermitage, ye cannot make them chaste, that came not thither so ; such great care and wisdom is required to the right managing of this point.
Стр. 56 - The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at present, were infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station, were not ashamed to beat their wives.
Стр. 56 - There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher.
Стр. 57 - Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and water-casks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill-fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavoured to save the life even of the murderer.
Стр. 130 - social 17 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 whosoever fails thereof in the smallest particular, violates my social right, and entitles me to demand from the legislature the removal of the grievance.
Стр. 60 - A METHOD of spending one's time agreeably is a thing so little studied, that the common amusement of our young gentlemen, especially of such as are at a distance from those of the first breeding, is Drinking. This way of entertainment has custom on its side ; but as much as it has prevailed, I believe there have been very few companies that have been guilty of excess this way, where there have not happened more accidents which make against, than for the continuance of it.
Стр. 71 - On the other hand, when the labourer earns by his work less than is required to provide the amount which is indispensable in order to restore fully his working power, an unyielding, inexorable law or necessity compels him to have recourse to spirits. He must work ; but in consequence of insufficient food, a certain portion of his working power is daily wanting. Spirits, by their action on the nerves, enable him to make up the deficient power at the expense of his body — to consume to-day that quantity...