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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1880

HOW IT WORKS.

An exchange says: "At a recent term of the quarter sessions court of Potter county, the district attorney informed the court that he had no indictments or bills to present to the grand jury; the sheriff also stated that he had no criminals in the prison; the directors of the poor reported that they had no one to keep at the county's charge or expense." Potter county has had no tavern license for ten years, and this is given as the reason for the lack of court business.

In contrast with the above, a late number of the Elmira Advertiser has the following: "Officer Squires arrested last evening a young boy very drunk. Can there not be some measure devised to stop this terrible practice of selling liquor to young boys? The fiend who sells to boys of such an age as the one arrested last night, ought to be placed where he could not do any more mischief for some time to come."

It would seem that the contrast in the two reports might be enough to show any sane person the true course. If it is right to license the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage to a person who is twenty-one years old, why not to one nineteen? In short, if it is right to sanction the sale and use by license for one person, why not for all? At what age does it cease to be a curse? If not right to license the sale to all, is it to any? —Sabbath Recorder.