Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "prohibitionists"

  • In justice to the American Prohibitionists it must be realised that they were not doing quite such desecration; and that many of them felt the saloon a specially poisonous sort of place.

  • I found it had a soothing effect on earnest Prohibitionists on the boat to urge, as a point of dignity and delicacy, that it ought to be given back to the French, a vicious race abandoned to the culture of the vine.

  • But I am not of the number of those who believe that prohibitionists are guided by interest, and not by conviction.

  • The Prohibitionists presented a ticket headed by John P.

  • The Socialist Labor party, the Socialist party and the Prohibitionists also presented candidates.

  • The Prohibitionists had already divided into halves over the dominant issue.

  • It is the duty and opportunity of the prohibitionists to make such a party.

  • Shall prohibitionists come out for State Socialism, shall they pledge themselves to make that economic nationalism which is now only a prophecy and an ideal, a political fact when they came into administration?

  • In Sir Robert Stout, the Brougham of New Zealand public life, the Prohibitionists had a spokesman of boundless energy and uncommon hitting power in debate.

  • The Prohibitionists are now disposed, it is believed, to make the fullest use in future of their right to vote for the reduction of the number of licensed houses.

  • St. Paul recommends it, Christ made and used it and God saved Noah while letting all the good Prohibitionists drown.

  • The rainbow is a sign, I believe, that the Prohibitionists once carried the country and would have made a complete success of the cold water cure had not the Rum Demon engineered the Ark.

  • Who can tell how much misery and crime the wretched cookery of female Prohibitionists is responsible for?

  • By this Plebiscite, the prohibitionists of Canada have been given a privilege never enjoyed by any other nation, and they have used it well, but now the work is just begun.

  • There is still much we all must do if we would see our country freed from the curse of strong drink, and let prohibitionists take courage from the victory already achieved, and with renewed zeal press the battle to the gates.

  • These figures are startling, and read quite as extravagantly as those quite to the reverse conclusion with which the prohibitionists are wont to appall us.

  • But meanwhile here are some figures which may startle prohibitionists as completely as did the figures given in these pages four years ago, which went to prove that habitual drunkards lived longer than total abstainers.

  • In a letter at this time she said: "I have learned just what I feared--the Prohibitionists in their late campaign studiously held woman suffrage in the background.

  • In that election the populists and prohibitionists appeared both in our new State of Washington and in the country at large.

  • Prohibitionists constantly point to the big majority in Congress, and the promptness and almost unanimity of the approval by the Legislatures, as proof of an overwhelming preponderance of public sentiment in favor of the Amendment.

  • Prohibitionists who have not put their brains in storage may judge whether or not his tactics are good and contribute to the end he seeks.

  • It was attended by many of the most prominent prohibitionists of the city, and all concurred in the view of the amendment afterward taken by the senate.

  • When the prohibitionists of Iowa united with the national organization I strongly advised against it.

  • The friends of prohibition were shocked and alarmed at this result and at once the prominent and more courageous prohibitionists of the state joined in a call for an independent republican convention favorable to prohibition.

  • This meeting of the board of trade, which was attended by many of the prominent prohibitionists of the city and of the state, I did not attend, though invited to be present.

  • I have always believed and still believe that if the prohibitionists had confined their efforts to the several states, capturing those in which they had some prospect of success, their cause would have grown and become stronger each year.

  • I've frankly antagonized legislation directed against the saloon, for I've never taken any stock in this clamor of the Prohibitionists and temperance cranks generally; but I've stood consistently for a proper control.

  • This was attempted in several other States and both prohibitionists and suffragists were in great distress, which was relieved by a decision of the U.

  • These will be good prohibitionists when prohibition dances in silver slippers; but now they do duty on the other side.

  • He was one of the first prohibitionists of Kansas to distrust St. John, and to denounce him as a self-seeking, ambitious demagogue.

  • The Town Marshal THE: Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.

  • And this while not in any way compromising or dallying with the proposition which the prohibitionists and temperance societies insist upon (and which is all they have as a basis for their claims), viz.

  • And I guess them prohibitionists won't feel so smart when they see all them old ladies with gray hair flung out onto the streets in the rainy weather just because nobody would pay the mortgage off.

  • Well, I says, you Prohibitionists done that to me.

  • Well, I notice in myself a kind of a habit growing up to blame everything onto Prohibition, just as Prohibitionists used to blame everything onto booze.

  • These Prohibitionists that is so darned smart never thought of that I guess when they put that Eighteenth Commandment across onto us.

  • I reckon them Prohibitionists will be satisfied when they got everybody's health broke down on account of them sudden changes in the weather and nobody getting any outdoor exercise any more.

  • Nor is Mr. Roosevelt happy in his illustration, when, in his concluding arraignment of the Abolitionists, he seeks to discredit them as an organization of impracticables by comparing them to the political Prohibitionists of to-day.

  • I was in Peoria when the prohibitionists held a convention there and was astonished that they would put up at a saloon or a hotel that run one.

  • There are good, loyal prohibitionists in the Anti-Saloon League, but those who control it are generally there for the salary.

  • On to Kansas" should be the battle cry of the prohibitionists of the nation.

  • Prohibitionists the preference, and not to charge them as much.

  • Kansas has learned some dear lessons, and she will be wise indeed when she learns that only Prohibitionists will enforce prohibition laws.

  • On all minor questions it was Marvin Towne's Prohibitionists who decided, because they carried the volume of votes necessary to control.

  • Marvin Towne and the Prohibitionists might count now on a vote or two more than fifty.

  • Even the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor, previously friendly to woman suffrage, now joined with the Prohibitionists to form a third political party which also failed to endorse the woman suffrage amendment.

  • The Prohibitionists are undoubtedly honest, and their object is to destroy the traffic, to prevent the manufacture of whiskey.

  • The Prohibitionists cannot expect to make this question a Federal one.

  • The Prohibitionists can take their choice between these parties.

  • The Prohibitionists were insane enough to vote for their worst enemies, just for the sake of polling a large vote for prohibition, and were fooled as usual.

  • As long as the Prohibitionists make no distinction between wine and whisky, between beer and brandy, just so long they will be regarded by most people as fanatics.

  • It seems to me that it would be far better if the Prohibitionists would turn their attention toward distilled spirits.

  • I believe Blaine will be a candidate, and I do not believe the Prohibitionists will put a ticket in the field, because they have no hope of success.

  • Even the Prohibitionists would rather drink beer in a prosperous country than burst with cold water and hard times.

  • Would it not be far better for the Prohibitionists to say: "We will vote for temperance men; we will stand with the party that is the nearest in favor of what we deem to be the right"?

  • A few years ago the Prohibitionists demanded above all things that the tax be taken from distilled spirits, claiming at that time that such a tax made the Government a partner in vice.

  • Now when the Republican party proposes under certain circumstances to remove that tax, the Prohibitionists denounce the movement as one in favor of intemperance.

  • So far as the Prohibitionists are concerned, they may be perfectly honest, but, if they will think a moment, they will see how perfectly illogical they are.

  • The Prohibitionists are simply throwing away their votes.


  • The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prohibitionists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.