Sale of Intoxicating Liquors: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate Sixty-Second Congress Second Session on S. 1076, a Bill Making Drunkenness in the District of Columbia a Misdemeanor, and to Provide a Hospital for Inebriates, and for Other Purposes, S. 2046, a Bill to Better Regulate the Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors in the District of Columbia, S. 2309, a Bill to Limit the Number of Saloons in the District of Columbia and to Confine Them to Business Streets, and for Other Purposes. February 26 to March 7, 1912U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 473 páginas |
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Página 333 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Página 341 - There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of the state or of a citizen of the United States.
Página 255 - Some occupations by the noise made in their pursuit, some by the odors they engender and some by the dangers accompanying them, require regulations as to the locality in which they shall be conducted.
Página 28 - Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it no orphans starving, no widows weeping. By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest ; even the...
Página 255 - Not only may a license be exacted from the keeper of the saloon before a glass of his liquors can be thus disposed of, but restrictions may be imposed as to the class of persons to whom they may be sold, and the hours of the day and the days of the week on which the saloons may be opened. Their sale in that form may be absolutely prohibited. It is a question of public expediency and public morality, and not of federal law'.
Página 28 - In it the world has found a solution of the long-mooted problem as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.
Página 28 - Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
Página 28 - And what a noble ally this to the cause of .political freedom; with such an aid its march cannot fail to be on and on, till every son of earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow-quenching draughts of perfect liberty. Happy day when — all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected— mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move, the monarch of the world. Glorious Consummation! Hail, fall of fury! Reign of reason, All Hail...
Página 341 - The statistics of every State show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these retail liquor saloons than to any other source.
Página 329 - God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.