An Enormous Evil | AdventAI

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 28, 1875

An Enormous Evil.

"The cost of liquors, of all sorts, imported and manufactured in the United States in 1870, was one billion four hundred and eighty-seven millions of dollars. Of course the retail price was more. There were one hundred and forty-seven thousand licensed liquor-saloons in the United States in 1870, with five hundred and sixty thousand customers, who purchased one billion five hundred and seventy-five millions of dollars' worth of liquor. The balance was, doubtless, sold by unlicensed vendors."—Luther Lee, D. D., in the California Christian Advocate.