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" I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county. "

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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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 citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. "

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" I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. "

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" 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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" 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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" It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people. "

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" Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. "

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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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" In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. "

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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 scaffold and hell. "

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" We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us. "

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