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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1916

Here and There in the Daily Press

By L. L. C.

(Concluded from page 2)

police were wrecked and set on fire. The city was reported, October 12, to be practically in the hands of the soldier mob.

The Post of Sunday, October 8, reported the town of Augusta, Kans., to be in “a state of near anarchy, with gamblers and bootleggers reaping a harvest, and the spirit of old western border days prevailing.” The town’s police force was dissolved, and the marshal resigned after a narrow escape from a mob of several hundred men.

Prohibition still continues to be a live question, and for the first time in the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a resolution was placed on record as favoring “such action in our legislative assemblies as will preserve the interest of temperance and the repression of the liquor traffic.” Even in the Roman Catholic Church there is a growing sentiment in favor of prohibition. The church officially has taken no position, but the opinion of the Catholic bishop of Great Falls, Mont., is that of many Catholics:—

“Although the Catholic Church has at all times and in all places advocated Christian temperance as one of the four cardinal virtues, still she has not promulgated any formal declaration or canonical pronunciamento on the subject of prohibition.

“It requires no proof to show that the traffic in intoxicating liquors is the crying evil of the day; that it is the most deadly enemy, the vampire of society; therefore its suppression cannot be wrong.

“Prohibition is a Christian principle. It is not against reason or morality, and it does not impose on personal liberty. On the contrary, it teaches prudence and self-control; it frees the public from intemperance, which is the most tyrannical slavery, and frees them from the danger of falling victims to this Juggernaut of mankind.

“Even as a negative and material virtue, temperance provides bread and clothing to the toiling masses; it brings peace and happiness to their families. On the other hand, we all know that King Alcohol, the greatest menace to success and happiness, closes the door of opportunity, paralyzes energy, brings disease, and is seldom prescribed by the best educated family physicians.

“Those who advocate prohibition are messengers of peace and patriotism, and are fighting a bloodless battle for humanity.”

Vice continues prevalent, and every few days there is some discovery of conditions prevailing in the society of the great cities of the world, such as should startle the optimist from his delusion that the world is getting better. Though France is involved in the present awful war, yet it has been necessary to form a police system to wipe out the opium dens in the fashionable quarters of Paris. The police are reported to have found palatial resorts fitted up in the most luxurious style for the use of opium parties of society men and women.

In New York City, according to a report dated October 19, a woman committed suicide the day before. The only reason which her husband, who was the foreman of a large dyeing establishment, could suggest for the suicide, was that his wife smoked as many as thirty cigarettes a day, was an inveterate coffee drinker, and had recently been ill. It would doubtless surprise many of our readers to know how many women are cigarette fiends.

In the great city of Chicago one of the most horrible of vice disclosures occurred recently. Seven men fought a revolver battle over the “sale of a

woman for $200.” One of the men was shot to death, and another probably fatally wounded.

Surely it takes no prophetic eye to see that the times in which we live resemble those which immediately preceded the flood. Even in the things which we see all about us, let us recognize the prophetic picture which shows that we are in the days when His coming draweth near.

L. L. C.