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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... Tell one lie and you will find it necessary to tell others to make the first appear consistent . All history sustains this view . After the American colonies were settled , the Parliament of Great Britain insisted that the right was ...
... Tell one lie and you will find it necessary to tell others to make the first appear consistent . All history sustains this view . After the American colonies were settled , the Parliament of Great Britain insisted that the right was ...
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... tell the truth ? They have always proclaimed and pressed the charges . They have stood upon the public platforms and said : Gentlemen , come before the people and meet us on these issues . " How have the liquor men met the charges ? 66 ...
... tell the truth ? They have always proclaimed and pressed the charges . They have stood upon the public platforms and said : Gentlemen , come before the people and meet us on these issues . " How have the liquor men met the charges ? 66 ...
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... tell you what I will do . If you will let me go and continue steal- ing , I will give you half the money I received for the horse . " If the judge , in the face of such a threat , should • accept the bribe and release the prisoner , how ...
... tell you what I will do . If you will let me go and continue steal- ing , I will give you half the money I received for the horse . " If the judge , in the face of such a threat , should • accept the bribe and release the prisoner , how ...
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... tell you what I will do : If you will let me sell , even though I may be guilty of all the crime charged , I will give you $ 500 out of the money I get as the results of the business . " And the people of Chicago and the people of this ...
... tell you what I will do : If you will let me sell , even though I may be guilty of all the crime charged , I will give you $ 500 out of the money I get as the results of the business . " And the people of Chicago and the people of this ...
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... tell the people what you give them for the money they pay you ; show them what you give them . Mr. Minister , they do not pay you alone for preaching , although it is pleasant and instructive 24 THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC .
... tell the people what you give them for the money they pay you ; show them what you give them . Mr. Minister , they do not pay you alone for preaching , although it is pleasant and instructive 24 THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC .
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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.