Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...people of the United States, he said, were in very great danger from the class of professional politicians and saloon keepers, which they had allowed to grow up. Boston has had to be put into the hands of the State police, because no mayor could remain in office there and appoint police unless he was subservient to the liquor dealers. All saloon keepers have to give bonds that they will not break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct...
...foods in the ordinary sense of the term, and neither serve to build up issues nor to warm the body; third, they do however arrest decay of the tissues, so that they may be very beneficial to old men, but never to young men in good health; fourth, the saloon is an evil-it is the poor man's club; fifth, all drinking between meals is injurious...