Word: prohibitionists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are 95 Republicans, 22 Democrats, 20 Independents, and 1 Prohibitionist. The protection sentiment is increasing, there being this year 83 protectionists and 43 free traders. As to the future, 51 will study law, 28 will go into business, 18 will enter the ministry, 18 will study medicine, 9 will teach, 10 will continue their study, and 42 are undecided what...
...students assembled last night in Sever 11, to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott's address to the Total Abstinence league. Dr. Abbott stated in the beginning that he had a great dislike to speak on temperance questions, and a greater dislike to refuse to speak; that he was not a prohibitionist; that he denied the right of any man or body of men to prescribe to any other man or body of men what they should or should not eat, drink or wear. There are several undisputed facts which bear on the temperance problem. First, alcohol and distilled liquors are poisonous...