Ocupation: U.S. senator
Life: January 18, 1836 - June 17, 1915
Birthday: January 18
Death: June 17
There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
Topics: School, Men, Rooms
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
Topics: Evil, Trying, Prohibition
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Topics: Mean, Names, People, Guise
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
Topics: Law, Perfect, Firsts
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.
Topics: Dirty, Drinking, Men, Filthy, Chewing
The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
Topics: People, Welfare, Indifferent, County
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.
Topics: School, Men, Office