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 |
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Página 49
... enforced . It is better enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in WHY THE INDICTMENT IS PRESSED . 49.
... enforced . It is better enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in WHY THE INDICTMENT IS PRESSED . 49.
Página 50
... enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in the cities of Chicago or Milwaukee . The state acted on the correct principle . The talk of the license men is that the State shall pass a law on the level of the people , and then edu ...
... enforced in those counties of Nebraska than in the cities of Chicago or Milwaukee . The state acted on the correct principle . The talk of the license men is that the State shall pass a law on the level of the people , and then edu ...
Página 51
... enforce this law and try to make it work . Now , after seventy years of earnest trial , after seventy years of tears and prayer and hard work , of money- giving and struggling , I stand here to say , what no man dares challenge , that ...
... enforce this law and try to make it work . Now , after seventy years of earnest trial , after seventy years of tears and prayer and hard work , of money- giving and struggling , I stand here to say , what no man dares challenge , that ...
Página 52
... enforce our law ? ' Why do you not enforce it yourselves ? We do not believe in the system . We have worked for its en- forcement , because it was the best thing we could do . We never believed in it . " Before the high license law was ...
... enforce our law ? ' Why do you not enforce it yourselves ? We do not believe in the system . We have worked for its en- forcement , because it was the best thing we could do . We never believed in it . " Before the high license law was ...
Página 53
... enforce it if it was passed . " “ Yes , we can . ” " But who will do it ? " " The prohibitionists . Give us our law , and if we do not make it operate we will repeal it . " He said : " If you pass this license law it will be enforced ...
... enforce it if it was passed . " “ Yes , we can . ” " But who will do it ? " " The prohibitionists . Give us our law , and if we do not make it operate we will repeal it . " He said : " If you pass this license law it will be enforced ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.