Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public meeting of the Total Abstinence League was held last evening in Sever 11, with an audience that was very good for Friday. Prof. F. G. Peabody was the first speaker. He spoke particularly of the work of the Law and Order League in Cambridge. He dwelt on the need of unity in all reforms and of united forces against common enemies. The need was felt in Cambridge, and finally a league was formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans...
...Edwin Dudley, Sec'y of the Nat. Law and Order League, followed Prof. Peabody. He gave a brief sketch of the history of the League, showing how much the cause resembled the cause of slavery, how hopeless both had seemed at first. The first league was formed in Chicago, in 1877, with the purpose of enforcing the liquor laws passed in Illinois in 1860. During the intervening eight years, only two arrests had been made, neigther of which resulted in conviction. In a very short time the League had turned into the city treasury, over $1,300,000 from fines...
...compensation should be such as to invite men of scholarly tastes and enthusiasm who long to become teachers of men to adopt that profession, without feeling that, by adopting this choice, they are depriving their wives and children of the social and educational privileges of the families of law-years or physicians, or of average merchants. The calling of a teacher is much more appreciated than it was fifty years ago, but there is still a selfish disregard of their rightful claims, because of their helplessness, on the part of their more money-getting brethren, which savors of meanness...
...addresses this evening, by Prof. Peabody and Hon. L. Edwin Dudley, will be on the working of the Law and Order League. Prof. Peabody has been active in the work in Cambridge, while Mr. Dudley has a national reputation for a vigorous enforcement of the liquor laws. All who wish to know what the liquor laws are, how they are enforced, and what the Law and Order League has done in the United States, should attend this meeting, at Sever...
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