Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309031494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Alcohol and Public Policy
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309031494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
An Address on the Temperance Cause and the Best Methods of Its Advancement
Author: William Greenleaf EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Author: Abraham Lincoln's Speeches
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
THE JOUNRAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Author: WILLIAM T HARRISAn Address on the Temperance Cause and the Best Methods of Its Advancement (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Greenleaf EliotPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282553708
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Excerpt from An Address on the Temperance Cause and the Best Methods of Its Advancement These three methods should go together. Full success cannot be Obtained without their united action. But, unquestionably, the first is the most important, not only as the rightful beginning, but in the progress of all our endeavors. I speak with absolute confidence, when I say that total abstinence is the only assured course of safety for ourselves and our families. I do not care how strong we may be, or how confirmed in habits of moder ation, or how fixed in religious or moral principle, we are not perfectly safe while the use of intoxicants as a beverage continues. I have seen all safeguards and barriers and resolutions and bonds give way, time and time again. I can show you graves which neither religion, nor morality, nor self-interest, nor self-respect, nor love of kindred, could prevent from being the drunkard's resting place. I can Show you, this day, men of intelligence, of good sense, of extended influence, of wealth, living in homes of refinement, surrounded by lov ing and faithful friends, in positions of trust and honor - ou the bench, at the bar, in the command of armies, in the council chamber, at the merchant's desk, in the mechanic's work-shop, in the office of the editor, in the pulpit itself where righteousness, temperance and judg ment to come are preached, in the halls of Congress, in the National Cabinet and in the Presidential Mansion - in all places of honor and usefulness have I seen men walking with unsteady steps, speaking with ill-considered words, and with all the marks of unmanliness that dis grace the foolish ones who put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. And yet, not one of them all but could remember the time when he was perfectly safe, quite able to control himself, able to use his liberty without abusing it. Alas, there is in the intoxicating cup a mysterious power, which overcomes all resolutions, and with which no wise man will trifle. Flee from it as from the face of a serpent, for if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee; the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls Of men. 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.
The Templar's Magazine
Author: Smashing the Liquor Machine
Author: Mark Lawrence SchradPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190841591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad's pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomás Masaryk, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, and anti-colonial activists across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "American exceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberal self-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights. Placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, forces us to fundamentally rethink its role in opposing colonial exploitation throughout American history as well. Prohibitionism united Native American chiefs like Little Turtle and Black Hawk; African-American leaders Frederick Douglass, Ida Wells, and Booker T. Washington; suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Frances Willard; progressives from William Lloyd Garrison to William Jennings Bryan; writers F.E.W. Harper and Upton Sinclair, and even American presidents from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Progressives rather than puritans, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory "liquor machine" that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to the beerhalls of Central Europe to the Native American reservations of the United States. Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers have been led to believe.
Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Progress of Colored Women: Three Civil Rights Speeches by the First Black Woman to Receive a College Education in the United States of America (H
Author: Mary Church TerrellPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780359033607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Mary Church Terrell was an icon in the civil rights movement, advocating for equality and social justice for black women through a lifetime of campaigning and eloquent oration. Famed for being the first black woman to gain a college education in the United States, Mary Terrell put her education to great use. Beginning in the 1890s, she spoke publicly on a range of civil rights which black Americans and black women were deprived. Throughout these efforts, Terrell helped coordinate a series of local movements which campaigned for suffrage and enfranchisement for the black population. Mary Church Terrell began a trend in the civil rights movement; her language bursting with eloquence and reason, she argued for a better intellectual, social and economic life for black Americans. Black women, who lacked even the right to vote, were compelled to join the cause, which they did in their thousands. Living to the age of 90, Terrell was a bridge between the Reconstruction era and the modern civil rights movement.