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... gallons in 1684 , * * had risen in 1724 to 3,601,000 , and in 1735 to 5,394,000 gallons . " Says the Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition , page 273 : " Soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century the evils resulting from ...
... gallons in 1684 , * * had risen in 1724 to 3,601,000 , and in 1735 to 5,394,000 gallons . " Says the Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition , page 273 : " Soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century the evils resulting from ...
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... begun a gradual abolition of the eixcse tax on many articles . But a high excise has been maintained upon alcoholic liquors , running as high in times of peace as $ 2.40 , in our money , a gallon on spirits , and $ THE EXCISE SYSTEM 13.
... begun a gradual abolition of the eixcse tax on many articles . But a high excise has been maintained upon alcoholic liquors , running as high in times of peace as $ 2.40 , in our money , a gallon on spirits , and $ THE EXCISE SYSTEM 13.
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Byron Akbar Roloson. our money , a gallon on spirits , and $ 1.50 a barrel on beer . Besides the excise , a high license fee has always been required from both whole- sale and retail dealers . The government of the United Kingdom has ...
Byron Akbar Roloson. our money , a gallon on spirits , and $ 1.50 a barrel on beer . Besides the excise , a high license fee has always been required from both whole- sale and retail dealers . The government of the United Kingdom has ...
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... gallon ) and , as a reason for this impost , set forth the fact that the great quantities of rum imported into the colony and there consumed " threaten the inhabitants in many , if not all , their interests ; " and that the immoderate ...
... gallon ) and , as a reason for this impost , set forth the fact that the great quantities of rum imported into the colony and there consumed " threaten the inhabitants in many , if not all , their interests ; " and that the immoderate ...
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... gallon of rum brought to Virginia in any ships except those belonging to the inhabitants of the colony . This act remained in force only two years when it was repealed . In 1684 an import duty of threepence per gallon was laid upon ...
... gallon of rum brought to Virginia in any ships except those belonging to the inhabitants of the colony . This act remained in force only two years when it was repealed . In 1684 an import duty of threepence per gallon was laid upon ...
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Page 10 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 5 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 10 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Page 5 - And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Page 24 - It deserves to be remarked, too, if we consult experience, the cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. The inhabitants of the wine countries are in general the soberest people in Europe; witness the Spaniards, the Italians, and the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France.
Page 23 - ... the retailer than a large quantity of the brewer. He may, no doubt, buy too much of either, as he may of any other dealers in his neighbourhood — of the butcher, if he is a glutton ; or of the draper, if he affects to be a beau among his companions. It is advantageous to the great body of workmen...
Page 5 - These are the generations of Noah : Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Page 8 - O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by means of wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God, and from prayer; will ye not therefore abstain from them...
Page 12 - These measures laid the foundation of the great extension of the English manufacture of spirits, but it was not till about 1724 that the passion for gindrinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider all the consequences that have flowed from it, the most momentous in that of the eighteenth century — incomparably more so...
Page 54 - Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and in making crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles on which our government was founded.