Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...
...High license is the best solution of the problem. - (a) Greatly reduces drunkenness. - (1) By reducing the number of saloons, makes better control possible, and increases profits of saloon keeper. - (2) Makes a license too valuable to risk loss of it by selling to drunkards. - (3) Makes it to saloon keeper's interest to prevent unlicensed selling. - (b) Takes the saloon out of politics. - (1) Where tried, it supersedes all other legislation. - (2) Thus liquor dealer's have no motive for united political action...
...High license is not open to objections raised to elimination of profits - (a) While preventing abuses it leaves desirable features of the saloon. - (b) Involves no unnecessary governmental interference with personal liberty...
...annual indoor athletic meeting of the Interscholastic Athletic Association will be held on March 23, at two o'clock, in Mechanics Hall. The list of entries will be: 40 yds. dash, 300 yds. run, 600 yds. run, 1000 yds. run, 880 yds. walk, pole vault, high jump, putting 16 pound shot, and 45 yds. low hurdle race...
...spikes will be allowed in any of the events. The order will be as follows: Putting the shot, parallel bars, high jump, potato race, tumbling, 10 yards dash, spring-board leap, pole vault...