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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 9, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 42.

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License.

Hon. Emory A. Storrs puts the whole question of liquor license in a nutshell in the following supposed interview between the whisky man and the city of Chicago. The former says: "Give me for one year the privilege of withering the fruit upon the roof-tree; give me for one year the privilege of scattering ashes upon the hearth-stone; give me for one year the privilege of sending the outraged wife into the streets from a blackened and ruined home; give me the privilege for one year of sending the youths along the highways of debauchery and crime, and I will pay the city fifty dollars," and the noble city of Chicago says, "Done."