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Get on the Water Wagon and the Open Saloon’s Dangers
A fiery temperance speech condemns the saloon as the deadliest foe to home, church, and state. It uses Jamaica’s mongoose analogy to describe the saloon’s harm, recounts personal tales of alcohol’s wreck, and urges church action and total prohibition over licensing.
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Hell
Jamaica
Chicago
Lincoln
Bill
Central
Swift
Armour
Nelson Morris
Cudahy
Whisky Hole
America
Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Hye
Whisky
Calico