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Revenue Versus Moral Degradation

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 12.

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Revenue Versus Moral Degradation

ONE of the Madagascar ambassadors now in Europe, speaking on the subject of temperance, said, "We would rather have a small exchequer than a degraded people." American legislators say, "Let us have a large revenue, even at the expense of making beasts of the youth of our land," forgetting that when the people become degraded, the revenue must necessarily diminish.