The condensed argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by F.R. Lees.

  • Lees, Frederic Richard, 1815-1897
Date:
1864
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Credit: The condensed argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by F.R. Lees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Med [3] K38879 pottos. “ The use of Strong drink produces more idleness, crime, disease, want, and misery, than all other causes put together.” The Times: Jan. 19, 1863. “ \\ e are convinced that if a Statesman, who heartily wished to do the utmost good to his country, were thoughtfully to enquire which of the topics ot the day deserved the most intense force of his attention, the sure reply—the reply which would be exacted by full deliberation—would stayed” ^ shoul<i £tudy i!le means hy which this worst of plagues can be C. Buxton, M.P., in North British Eeview. “The Law of Humanity must needs interfere with the right of Property.” The Examiner. the morSofThTpeoS” h ^ ***** What6Ver iS fitted 0nl>’to corruP‘ Valtel. lib. i. chap. xi. § 165. iS Clear,y sh?wn hy Parliamentary returns, that Vice and Drunkpn- forMo&^tS£?ffl/>er0f PuMc-H0USeS> andt0 the facilities Birmingham Publicans. which*have^no e °is^grea^to an'i'nc f^ing with Rehouses, and those Jhe submLsiofand'atlTment to Arthur Young, f.e.s. 1798. the SftSi feSaftlRtfS* S-S* ot >•'«.» not changes which Society und(M-L'oes 'hvt-Wrn^-ff;Ct be, aftlve’ but rather the its Institutions— as through Shp u9^1 the gradual Reform of ^perience^vinces usSre?nd <* ,**&* and its wants. tion, we may be prepared year after vear tnr’e?**1 f16 “a,’ie sociai organiza- phsenomena.” ’ ^ H > f°r the return of the same moral Quetelel. “ the results- » » « »d truth. Mittermaier.