"I beg you to look at the promising……" — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
"I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way."
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Thomas Jordan Jarvis
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13 Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Thomas Jordan Jarvis has 13 quotes on this site.
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There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
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We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition…
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I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal…
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In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them…
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The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
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The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the…
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Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum…
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It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and…
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I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do…
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I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.
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The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble…
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