Something about Whisky

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

Something about Whisky.

"WHAT is whisky bringing?" asked a dealer in that article, one day. He meant to ask, how much it is selling for.

A gentleman who heard the remark took it in an entirely different sense from that.

"What is whisky bringing?" do you ask. I'll tell you: "It is bringing men to prison and to the gallows, and it is bringing women and children to poverty and want."

There never was a truer answer than this.

It is estimated that it sends to prison every year one hundred thousand men and women.

Twenty thousand children are sent to the work-house annually by drink.

Three hundred murders are caused by intemperance every year. Two hundred thousand children are made orphans every year, by this dreadful evil; and sixty-five thousand are killed by intemperance every year in this country.

Does it seem possible that man will deal out to his brother such poisonous stuff, when he knows that it will prove his ruin?

Laws ought to be established and put in force, so affecting the rum-seller that not one would dare put up his sign, or stand behind the counter and deal out the fatal poison.

Visit our large cities. Over the door of almost every other place of business you will read: "Ales, wines, liquors, and cigars." "Ales on draught." "Lager beer saloon," etc. How can the unwary escape, where so many traps are set for them. Villages rarely have such signs over their doors, but then there are "holes in the wall" protected by a few oyster shells, where the thirsty can dodge in for a glass of stale beer, if for nothing stronger, and thus pave their way to destruction

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