Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

A favorite argument with those who want to stand with the bar-room, but who try to give some excuse for so doing, is that prohibition does not prohibit. Oh, they say, if prohibition really prohibited they would vote for it. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

I say it is thrown away because no one can claim that his money goes to build up anything useful in society or in any department of human life. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

I think I can say with the utmost confidence, that there is not the slightest doubt about the result of the election in the state. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

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. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

Let us make it so large that the officers of the law will know that the people are earnest and that they mean to see the law enforced. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

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. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

The time was when the different sections of the State were separated from each other by long distance and time. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis)