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The Liquor Traffic

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 24, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 4.

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The Liquor Traffic

IN Boston, over 200 more licenses were issued this year than last. From these came but $26,000 increase in revenue, while $35,000 were spent for extra expense of police, etc., to control these; and expenses at Deer Island were increased $50,000. Of the 10,042 commitments to Deer Island, over 9,000 were for drunkenness or for crimes committed under the influence of liquor. On the authority of the Law and Order League, there are 1,000 places in the city selling illegally. If this existed under prohibition, what a hue and cry would be raised for its repeal! But the friends of license are not so moved by its non-execution.
PERSONAL liberty ceases when it reaches a point where another is injured. This point is reached by the liquor-seller the moment he locates and opens his dram-shop. The neighborhood becomes less desirable and property less valuable.
THE question of the prohibition of the liquor traffic is of vastly more importance than the tariff or free trade, civil service reform, or any other question which concerns the ascendancy of either party.—Ex.