The World's Curse

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 10, 1916

The World's Curse

The Testimony of Eminent Men

Grape juice has killed more people than grapeshot.—Spurgeon.

O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains.—Shakespeare.

In every community three things always work together,—the grogshop, the jail, and the gallows,—an infernal trinity.—Henry Ward Beecher.

Give me a sober population, not wasting their earnings in strong drink, and I will know where to get my revenue.—William E. Gladstone.

I have looked into a thousand homes of the working people of Europe; I do not know how many in this country. In every case, as far as my observation goes, drunkenness was at the bottom of the misery.—Carroll D. Wright, former Commissioner of Labor, U. S. A.

The liquor traffic is a hydra-headed monster, which, with ceaseless and tireless energy, wastes the substance of the poor, manufactures burdensome taxes for the public, monopolizes the time of courts, fills the jails and penitentiaries and asylums, terrorizes helpless women and children, and mocks the law.—Gen. Nelson A. Miles.

I have no sympathy with the statement, so often made, that the manufacture and sale of liquor has contributed to the industrial development of the nation. On the contrary, I believe that liquor has contributed more to the moral, intellectual, and material deterioration of the people, and has brought more misery to defenseless women and children, than has any other agency in the history of mankind.—John Mitchell, vice president American Federation of Labor.

The saloon is the mortal enemy of peace and order, the despoiler of man and the terror of women, the cloud that shadows the face of children, the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls unshriven to judgment than all the plagues that have wasted life since the plagues of Egypt, or all the wars since Joshua stood before Jericho.—Henry W. Grady.