One hundred objections to a Maine law : being a sequel to the 'argument' of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic / by Dr Frederic Richard Lees.

  • Frederic Richard Lees
Date:
1857
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Credit: One hundred objections to a Maine law : being a sequel to the 'argument' of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic / by Dr Frederic Richard Lees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^loitas from dors- “ Sow are we English to deal with Drunkenness? No one denies that the vice has risen to frightful prevalence amongst us—no one could deny it without impugning the veracity of police reports chronicled from day to day. The evil being admitted, how is it to be dealt with? Morning Post. “ The World's history shows how much easier it is to prevent evil seeds being sown, than to extirpate the vicious weeds which they germinate.” Bristol Mercury. “ As the guardian of morality not less than of the lives of its subjects, the Govern- ment is bound to remove the opportunity [temptation?], as well as to punish the commission of Crime.” Morning Chronicle. “We are wholly at a los3 to understand that theory of society which admits,— what indeed is absolutely necessary to our peace and our very existence,—that we may and must maintain an expensive police to protect us from drunkards, to keep watch at the doors of public-houses, to observe the movements of their chief frequenters, and to protect their victims from being plundered; and that we must also build prisons and go to other vast costs for the punishment, correction, and euro of offenders, who became what they are by drunkenness—admits all this, and then maintains that we ought not to interfere at all with the practice itself, either as to its hours, its days, its places, or any other circumstance. The simple consideration that we muBt do the cure, and that the cure is very costly and difficult, imposes on us also the duty of prevention, at least as far as it is possible. Self preservation requires that we should stop an evil where we can, if we must stop it somewhere.” The Times, Aug. 25,1854. “ The licensing system has the double vice of not answering a public end, but a private one. It has been tried, and has been found wanting. The Times, May 13,1857. “There can surely be no question that if the Liquor trade were put under the bun of the law, it would be reduced to comparatively small limits, though it certainly would not be extinot; and if its total suppression be desirable, the result, so far as it went, would manifestly bo good. Manchester Guardian. “ From the days of the Pilgrim Fathers downwards, tho Northern States have pos- sessed a complete educational apparatus, yet in this chosen home of education, tho Tavern has proved stronger than the School, the Publican mightier than tho School- master. yAr Commonwealth.