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Dates: during 1910-1919
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As July 1 approaches the agitation against national prohibition is growing more and more powerful. The cities of the country are holding series of indignation meetings. On Saturday the thousand representatives of organized labor paraded in Washington as protest against the ban on beer a delight wines. Samuel Gompers, president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL INDIGNATION | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

While we feel that the structure of American society is too sound to crumble like that of Russia and that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL INDIGNATION | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL INDIGNATION | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

At the recent mass meeting called by the Massachusetts Branch of the Association opposed to National Prohibition in the Mechanics Building, the following statements were made by Mr. C. A. Windle of Chicago, the most plausible speaker of the evening:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ABRIDGMENT OF LICENSE | 6/12/1919 | See Source »

The implication running through the whole of Mr. Windle's argument is that civilized man will become so immediately capable of temperance, that no restraint is needed to keep him from alcoholic excess. The attainment of this condition will at best require a long process of steady development. Throughout this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ABRIDGMENT OF LICENSE | 6/12/1919 | See Source »

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