Jack Watson War
speaker
512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Sabbath has been sacrificed to the rum traffic.
To many of our people the best day of the week is the worst.
Makers must keep their shops closed on the Sabbath.
It is dangerous to have loaves of bread going out on Sunday.
The shoe store is closed, severe penalty will attack the man who sells boots on the Sabbath, but down with the window shutters of the grog shops.
Our law shall confer particular honours upon the run traffickers.
All other traders must stand aside for these.
Let our citizens who have disgraced themselves by trading in clothing, and hosiery, and hardware, and lumber, and coal, take off their hats to the rum seller, elected to particular honour.
It is unsafe for any other class of men to be allowed license for Sunday work, but swing out your signs, O ye traffickers in the peace of families, and in the souls of immortal men.
Let the corks fly and the beer foam, and the rum go tearing down the half consumed throat of the inebriate.
God does not see, does he?
Judgment will never come, will it?
People say, let us have some law to correct this evil.
We have more law now than we execute.
In what city is there mayorality that dare do it?
There is no advantage in having the law higher than public opinion.
What would be the use of the main law in New York?
Neil Dow, the mayor of Portland, came out with a posse and threw the rum of the city into the street.
From the arms house a woman came out and said
Oh, if this had only been done ten years ago, my husband would not have died a drunkard, and I would not have been a widow in the almshouse.
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