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Excerpt from The Liquor Question in Politics What is true of New York City is substantially true of the country at large. Liquor is an organization pervasive and thorough, formed to exert all the political power it can for its own good, and as such is one of the strongest elements in Ameri can politics, if indeed it be not the very strongest. The liquor trade has one important advantage over most others active in the political sphere - as a lucrative trade it has command of liberal subscriptions, and many of the men engaged in it have leisure wherein to advance political aims. That the liquor vote has already decided a presidential election is claimed by Mr. Gallus Thomann, head of the Literary Bureau of the United States Brewers' Association. He asserts that Mr. Blaiue's defeat in 1884 is chargeable to his ambiguous attitude toward Probi bitiou in Maine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Liquor Problem in Its Legislative Aspects The results of the investigation and the inferences from it which the sub-committee laid before the Committee of Fifty include a consideration of prohibition, its successes, its failures, its concomitant evils, and its disputed effects; local Option the systems of licenses licensing authorities; re strictions on the sale of liquors; druggists' licenses; and the effect of liquor legislation on politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Liquor Question in Politics. The term liquor being for convenience' sake used to include not only distilled alcoholic stimulants, but also wine, ale, and beer, the liquor question fills two places in politics. First, in so far as the liquor business is organized or represented as a political interest to protect or promote itself. Second, in so far as this business is the subject of legislation for its special taxation, restriction, or suppression. As the extremely variable element of retail profit enters into estimates, it is impossible to say exactly how much the nation's annual outlay for liquor is. It is certainly not less than a thousand million dollars, and may be even a fifth more. The vast business which this outlay represents is highly organized: the trust system which has consolidated so many other branches of manufacture has been extended to whiskey; agreements as to wages and prices have drawn together for concerted action the majority of brewers in the United States. There are throughout the Union numerous associations not only of distillers and brewers, but also of wine- producers, liquor-dealers, and saloon-keepers, supporting trade journals of large circulation, maintaining a literary bureau, and employing special counsel to watch State and national law- making in their behalf. New York City as the nation's metropolis presents the developments of the liquor trade in their highest form. On December 31, 1888, there were 7809 places in the city licensed to sell liquor to be drank on the premises. In addition there were 971 stores licensed to sell liquor not to be drank on the premises. Assuming the city's population to be 1,500,000, there was onelicense to every 171 inhabitants. The receipts for licenses during 1888 were $1,430,420, an average of $162. Wi...
Excerpt from The Liquor Problem The first suggestion that such a book be prepared came from Mr. Philip A. Goold, then a student in Boston Uni versity, and the first lesson was written by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Question of Alcohol From the evidence offered by the State Hospital records it appears that there is a far higher percentage of drug habitues per capita in the South than in most Of the Northern States. Moreover, in the Southern States drug habituation seems to be increasing rapidly in certain localities, whereas in many of the Northern States there ap pears to be an actual decline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Excerpt from Alcohol and Society Since the memorable work of the Committee of Fifty was published there has been little discussion of the liquor problem except from the propagandist standpoint; and new studies of a general nature have not been undertaken. Evidence against alcohol is diligently being sought, not to enrich our knowledge but to prove an assumption. Searchers after fact are chided for failing to take it for granted that every depth of the drink problem has been explored and thoroughly mapped, and for venturing to question the wisdom and sufficiency of current remedial proposals. Are we to believe that science has said the final word about alcohol? Is the solution offered by prohibitionists sufficient and are their methods sound? May there not be a better approach to the temperance ideal than through coercion? These questions, among others, the author seeks to answer. If the original articles in The Atlantic upon which the book is based awakened much resentment among prohibition enthusiasts, they were also accorded an attention which encourages the author to give them a more permanent and much enlarged form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Lincoln and the Liquor Question: Compiled From the Most Reliable Authorities A year ago the writer published an article in the Champion, on Lincoln as a Saloonkeeper, which aroused the ire of some very staunch prohibitionists who took exception to the follow ing quotation from a speech of Lincoln. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.