On the record
It was not uncommon to see farmers, bearing names highly respected in the town, lying drunk by the roadside on a summer afternoon, or staggering along the streets.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Hoar describes the social issues related to alcohol consumption in his community.
Share
More from George F. Hoar
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
Nov 15, 2021
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
Other voices in this conversation
