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 - 122 pages |
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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 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 labor 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 Professor 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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 69 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners ! 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Page 69 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Page 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...
Page 59 - I came to Europe under the impression that there was more drunkenness among us than in any other country, — England, perhaps, excepted. A residence of six months in Paris changed my views entirely ; I have taken unbelievers with me into the streets, and have never failed to convince them of their mistake in the course of an hour On one occasion a party of four went out with this object ; we passed thirteen drunken men...
Page 79 - Whenever, in short, there is a definite damage, or a definite risk of damage, either to an individual or to the public, the case is taken out of the province of liberty, and placed in that of morality or law.