An argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by Frederic Richard Lees.

  • Lees, Frederic Richard, 1815-1897.
Date:
1856
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Credit: An argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by Frederic Richard Lees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    -first fri$ AN ARGUMENT LEGAL AND HISTORICAL CONCEBNING THE TRAFFIC IN STRONG DRINK. “ As drunkenness is a common source of many other vices, and also of crimes— tending to demoralize and deteriorate the species—Governments ought to favor the researches of learned men who seek to ascertain the condition of the People, and who try to improve them. .1 am persuaded that a work, well-written, which would endeavor to make known the injuries this pestilence inflicts on Society, would ba of the greatest utility. M. A. Qurtblst. 1835. jtanfo Mitm, pM,