Lesson 6 Document 11
The Opposer of Temperance. Hand-colored woodcut. Philadelphia, circa 1855.
You uphold the rum-traders madly
When you cannot hold up yourself
You swallow their poison, and gladly
You aid them in robbing yourself.
This illustrated comic valentine shows a drunkard stepping on the Maine Liquor
Law, which prohibited the sale of liquor in that state.
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