The People Versus the Liquor Traffic: The Great Speeches of John B. FinchLiterature com. R.W.G. lodge, I.O. of G.T., 1888 - 285 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 18
Página 3
... Nebraska , ten years ago , a member of the Legislature who did not drink liquor was an exception ; to - day a member who does is an exception . In that early day the people elected a Governor who was a known drunkard , and , regardless ...
... Nebraska , ten years ago , a member of the Legislature who did not drink liquor was an exception ; to - day a member who does is an exception . In that early day the people elected a Governor who was a known drunkard , and , regardless ...
Página 20
... Nebraska . One liquor dealer said , " It would kill it dead to call it that . " The matter was referred to the committee , and the committee reported in favor of calling it the " Merchants ' and Traders ' Union , " ashamed to own its ...
... Nebraska . One liquor dealer said , " It would kill it dead to call it that . " The matter was referred to the committee , and the committee reported in favor of calling it the " Merchants ' and Traders ' Union , " ashamed to own its ...
Página 21
... Lincoln to talk in favor of high license . His talk occupied the first two hours , and I talked a half an hour in reply . In opening his argument he said : " Ladies and gentlemen of Nebraska , I do not A STATEMENT OF THE CASE . 21.
... Lincoln to talk in favor of high license . His talk occupied the first two hours , and I talked a half an hour in reply . In opening his argument he said : " Ladies and gentlemen of Nebraska , I do not A STATEMENT OF THE CASE . 21.
Página 22
... Nebraska , I do not come to deny that intemperance is the curse of the nation , that it is sapping and undermining our social , civil and political institutions . All this is admitted . " That was his starting - point , and he went on ...
... Nebraska , I do not come to deny that intemperance is the curse of the nation , that it is sapping and undermining our social , civil and political institutions . All this is admitted . " That was his starting - point , and he went on ...
Página 49
... the people came up , up , UP to the law , and to - day there is no portion of the United States where the law is better enforced . It is better enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in WHY THE INDICTMENT IS PRESSED . 49.
... the people came up , up , UP to the law , and to - day there is no portion of the United States where the law is better enforced . It is better enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in WHY THE INDICTMENT IS PRESSED . 49.
Términos y frases comunes
adopted alcoholic liquor almshouses American answer ballot-box beer believe Christian church citizens civil Congress constitutional amendment corrupt court crime curse customs debauched defend despotism destroy dollars dramshop drunk drunkard-makers drunkards drunkenness educated enactment enforce fact favor Fiji islands Finch force fourteenth amendment give guilty honest idea indictment injurious institutions intelligence intoxicating liquors Iowa issue jury Kansas killed ladies and gentlemen lature legislative legislature liquor business liquor men liquor traffic liquor-dealers meet ment minister moral nation Nebraska never option law organism passed personal liberty platform poison police political principles prohibition party prohibitionists prohibitory law provisions question regulate saloon schools sell sentiment settled simply social society stand statutes steal Suppose talk tell temperance temperance movement temperance organizations Templars thing tion to-day United verdict violated vote voters whisky
Pasajes populares
Página 111 - What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded men...
Página 7 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 100 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 74 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies...
Página 214 - And if any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, and calculated to produce idleness, vice, or debauchery, I see nothing in the constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether, if it thinks proper.
Página 91 - What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found, — Freedom to worship God.
Página 91 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared, — This was their welcome home.
Página 90 - When a band of exiles moor'd their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In...
Página 166 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.