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BROWN AND NICHOLS CLUB. - Beer night and smoker at 13 Holworthy, Friday...
...HUNTINGTON, Sec.BROWN AND NICHOLS CLUB. - Beer night and smoker at 13 Holworthy, Friday...
...Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely destroy its value as a revenue measure...
...which has been passed. It was brought against the new factory laws; it was brought against compulsory education and against improvement laws for the working classes. The claim that this tax is sectional is one that might be brought against the internal revenue measures which my opponents advocate on beer and whisky...
There is nothing which so inflames all the passions of a man as light drinks. The heriditary effects of beer, for instance, are known to be much more vicious than those of distilled liquors. Beer has a degenerating influence on the whole system, and beer drunkenness is the most degrading of all; it multiplies all forms of diseases and crimes. An idea has got abroad that drunkenness does not exist in wine producing countries. This is not true. The Germans, in spite of the popular notion that they are only beer drinkers, drink more heavy drink than any other people...