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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

King Lear · Abominations of Modern Society - Thomas De Witt Talmage · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

But there are not enough police in the city of New York to stand by its mayor in such an undertaking.

Public opinion is not educated.

I do not know but that God is determined to let drunkards triumph.

and the husbands and sons of thousands of our best families be destroyed by this vice, in order that our people, amazed and indignant, may rise up and demand the extermination of this municipal crime.

There is a way of driving down the hoops of a barrel until the hoops break.

We are, in this country, at this time, trying to regulate this evil by attacks on whiskey.

You might as well try to regulate the Asiatic cholera or the smallpox by taxation.

The men who distill liquors are, for the most part, unscrupulous, and the higher the tax, the more inducement to elicit distillation.

New York produces forty thousand gallons of whiskey every twenty four hours, and the most of it escapes attacks.

The most vigilant officials fail to discover the cellars, and vaults, and sheds where this work is done.

Oh the folly of trying to restrain an evil by government tariffs.

If every gallon of whiskey made, if every flask of wine produced should be taxed a thousand dollars, it would not be enough to pay for the tears it has wrung out of the eyes of widows and orphans, nor for the blood it has dashed on the altars of the Christian Church, nor for the catastrophe of the millions it has destroyed forever.

Oh, we are a Christian people.

From Boston a ship sailed for Africa, with three missionaries and twenty two thousand gallons of New England rum on board.

Which will have the most effect?

The missionaries or the run?

Rum is Victor.

Sometime when you have leisure, just go down to any of our streets, and count the number of drinking places.

Here they are.

First class hotels.

Showing 261–280 of 512 · page 14 of 26