An argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by Frederic Richard Lees.

  • Frederic Richard Lees
Date:
1856
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Credit: An argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by Frederic Richard Lees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [9] VL That the Suppression of the Traffic would powerfully promote a Progressive Civilization. . Section. ' Pays* 80. Man, a progressive being, capable of indefinite culture 148 90. Civilization defined. The Traffic necessarily antagonistic to it. 149 91. The Philosophy of the Fact. ‘North British Review’ .... 150 92. Rough Cost of the Traffic to the Nation. Its Fruits 151 93. Drunkenness. Its degrees. Disguised in the higher classes. 152 94. Habits of the trading classes. History of a Tradesman .... 155 95. Incalculable extent of Drunkenness. Police returns defective 157 96. Sale and signs suggest use, and use creates demand for drink 160 97. Poverty, Individual and National. Maine Law Parishes .. 162 98. Illustrations from the History of Ireland 163 99. Pauperism, etc., in Scotland 164 100. Pauperism and Mendicity created by the Traffic in England 167 101. How the Traffic creates ‘distressed needlewomen’ 169 102. Expenditure of the Working Glasses at Public-houses 170 103. Ignorance. Brutality and Vice in its train. Ragged Schools 171 104. How the Traffic blights the fruits of Education 173 105. Contrast between the Factory Girls of Lowell and Manchester 175 106. Prostitution. The Traffic its Nurse and Feeder 177 107. Excitement, the proximate cause of Seduction 185 108. Drink and the Traffic necessary to sustain Prostitution 186 109. Drunken Parents and the Traffic supply the victims 186 110. The consequences of the Vice.—Its true remedy 186 111. Accidents. Explosions, conflagrations, shipwrecks, etc 188 112. Evidence of Coroners. Doctrine of Mr Wakley, M.P 189 113. Disease. Loss by chronic or permanent causes of disease.. 191 114. Loss by sudden death, and predisposition to Epidemics, etc.. 193 115. Idiocy. Hereditary transmission of imbecility 198 116. Self-inflicted Idiocy; Dementia. Society an abettor., 199 117. Madness. Chronic and Temporary. (Excitement) 200 118. Melancholy and Suicide. Analysis of Causes 202 119. Offences and Crimes. Statistical fallacies 208 120. Facts and Statistics from the History of Ireland 205 121. Scotland. Decrease of offences under partial Prohibition .. 210 122. English Statistics (see also § 172) 210 123. Evidence of the Press. Police Courts in the Provinces 212 124. Fruits of the London Traffic. Remedies of ‘ able Editors ’ .. 217 125. Criminal Drunkenness a year later 220 120. Testimony of Statesmen. Shaftesbury, Aberdeen, Albemarle.. 220 127. Evidence of the Parliamentary Report of 1853 222 128. Testimony of Chaplains of Prisons. Rev. John Clay cited .. 223 129. Evidence of Prisoners themselves, as to the cause of crime.. 225 130. Testimony of Inspectors and Governors of Prisons 226 131. Evidence of Magistrates and Grand Juries 226 132. Testimony of Sheriffs and Recorders 228 188. Evidence of an Assize Calendar 230 184. Testimony of the Judges of Assize; from Hale to Ta'lfourd 231 185. Testimony of the Colonial Judges. Stephens and A’Beckett.. 237 186. A Question 238 VII. That the History of Restrictive Legislation in North America, and the experiments of a Prohibitory Law, confirm THE POBITIONS OF THE ALLIANCE.