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...offences of throttling, tripping up, or intentional tackling below the knees, the opponents shall receive twenty-five yards, or a free kick, at their option. In case, however, the twenty-five yards would carry the ball across the goal line they can have half the distance from the spot of the offence to the goal line, and no free kick is allowed...
...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...
...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...