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Looking Back: Dec. 19, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

December 21, 1887
A law has been passed in Waldeck, Germany, forbidding the granting of a marriage license to a person addicted to the liquor habit.

This is what free trade means – cheap goods, cheap labor. Why any American should desire free trade is beyond our power of comprehending. Under our protective laws we have been a most prosperous people.

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