Word: optional
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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...
...brewery and distillery, the saloon, and the drinker; and if the first one can be overthrown, the overthrow of the two others will follow. Now what is the best means of overthrowing the distillery and the brewery? Surely not persuasion. Should then high or low license, local option or a constitutional amendment be the means? The latter is the best means owing to its superior principle...
...said, is between prohibition and nine-tenths prohibition, for nine-tenths prohibition is the present condition of Massachusetts. There are numerous objections to the adoption of the prohibitory amendment, viz, it would be unconstitutional and degrading, and a prohibitory law could not work where there is no local option. Such an amendment would then be a farce, as Rhode Island and many other states can testify...
...ground will be leased for a period of five years; Mr. Nortion will give an option on the portion owned by him, so that it may be purchased at reasonable figures at any time before the expiration of the lease. The yearly expense of maintaining the field will be $1,000 and the taxes. It is thought that the surpluses of the different athletic organizations of the university will more than meet this expense, and any amounts in excess of sum required for yearly maintenance will be applied on the purchase of the ground. On account of the unfortunate result...