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The Liquor Question

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 50.

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The Liquor Question

The Liquor Question.— One of the paramount political issues of some parts of this country, one of the unsettling things, is the liquor question. This is what I. M. Gilmore, in Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular, says:
“The situation is a grave one, and it demands the attention of the men who have hundreds of millions interested in breweries, distilleries, wineries, and in stocks of liquors. . . . It raises the question as to whether our cause as a trade is incompetent or in incompetent hands, or whether it can be possible that the liquor trade is so disreputable that it can not be successfully defended before the bar of public sentiment.”
It seems to us that the latter question ought to have been settled long years agone. A cause which ruins men, wrecks homes, fills our jails with criminals and our politics with corruption, and damns forever the souls of millions, can not be anything else but disreputable.