Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prohibitory amendment is preferable to (a) freedom of sale-Local Option, chapter 3. (b) low license-R. C. Pitan, Argument on License Bill, p. 22; Nation, Jan. 13, 1889, p. 87; (c) high license-New Englander, 48, p. 126; W. B. Spooner, pamphlet, p. 13; (d) local option-North American Review, 135, pp. 528 532; (e) prohibitory laws-Our Day, March...
...present local option law is working successfully-Nation, Jan. 31, 1889; Christian Union, Feb. 28, 1889; (a) it educates the community which must enforce the laws-Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cambridge Tribune, March 9, 1889; (b) any defects in the present laws should be remedied carefully, not by revolutionary methods-Science, 9, 105; Professor J. B. Thayer, ibid...
...High license with local option has proved the best check on the evils of the liquor traffic-Nation, 42, 52; e. q. (1) in Illinois-45, 363; (2) in Minnesota; (3) in Ohio; (4) in Missouri; (5) in Nebraska-Nation. 46, 25; (6) in Pennsylvania-Nation, 46, 83; (7) in Michigan-Nation, 46, 127; Nation...
...come here from another section of the country has noticed that the pronunciation, or the usage of some words differs from that to which he has been accustomed, also, that he meets words which are entirely new to him. Such differences, their origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will be studied by the society. This study of the natural and unconsidered speech of people in different localities must prove a fruitful one, and will doubtless be productive of results that will reveal much that is interesting in the growth...
...part and parcel of the Massachusetts constitution, for a constitution is not a code of law or of morality. The principles of every constitution have all been proved successes. The same cannot be said of prohibition. Again, the theory of governments is to leave as much as possible to local bodies; hence if the people of Massacnusetts want prohibition let each separate city council voth for prohibition...