The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States of America: A Chronological History of the Liquor Problem and the Temperance Reform in the United States from the Earliest Settlements to the Consummation of National Prohibition, by Ernest H. Cherrington ... |
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Page 228 - The power which the states have of prohibiting such use by individuals of their property, .as will be prejudicial to the health, the morals, or the safety of the public, is not, and, consistently with the existence and safety of organized society, cannot be, burdened with the condition that the state must compensate such individual owners for pecuniary losses they may sustain, by reason of their not being permitted, by a noxious use of their property, to inflict injury upon the community.
Page 228 - ... shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals and the public safety, may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, established by statistics accessible to every one, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are, in some degree at least, traceable to this evil.
Page 286 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 114 - Being satisfied from observation and experience as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirits as a drink is not only needless, but hurtful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, an'd the happiness of the community...
Page 114 - ... of entertainment, or for persons in our employment, and that in all suitable ways we will discountenance the use of it in the community.
Page 261 - League movement throughout the nation. The American Anti-Saloon League is organized at Washington, DC, December 18, by the coalition of the Anti-Saloon League of the District of Columbia, the Anti-Saloon League of Ohio and five other State, national, and local temperance organizations. Dr. Howard H. Russell is chosen the first national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America. The American Issue, the official organ of the AntiSaloon League, makes its first appearance, taking the place...
Page 130 - For, although the gin sold was an import from another State, and congress have clearly the power to regulate such importations, under the grant of power to regulate commerce among the several States, yet, as congress has made no regulation on the subject, the traffic in the article may be lawfully regulated by the State as soon as it is landed in its territory, and a tax imposed upon it, or a license required, or the sale altogether prohibited, according to the policy which the State may suppose...
Page 47 - No sutler shall be permitted to sell any kind of liquors or victuals, or to keep their houses or shops open for the entertainment of soldiers, after nine at night, or before the beating of the reveille, or upon Sundays, during divine service or sermon, on the penalty of being dismissed from all future sutling.
Page 48 - Resolved, That it be recommended to the several legislatures in the United States immediately to pass laws the most effectual for putting an immediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling grain, by which the most extensive evils are likely to be derived, if not quickly prevented.
Page 113 - We whose names are hereunto annexed, believing that the use of ardent spirit, as a drink," [changed in a reissue of this circular in 1835 to read, " that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage,"] " is not only needless, but hurtful to the social, civil, and religious interests of men ; that it tends to form intemperate appetites and habits ; and that, while it is continued, the evils of intemperance can never be done away ; do therefore agree that we will not use it, or traffic in it ; that...