A Sad Remedy by Editor

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

A Sad Remedy.

By Editor

We have long known that the licensed saloon leads to the penitentiary, but it is a sad thought that we have to use the penitentiary as a remedy for the saloon. The Paterson Journal relates a case which occurred in New Jersey:—

A few days ago, Judge Woodruff, in sentencing a young man for theft, said:

"It is in evidence that when you are sober you are a peaceable, law-abiding citizen; you have repeatedly tried to overcome that appetite for strong drink, which is your greatest enemy. The sentence of the court is that you be confined in the State Prison at Trenton, for two years. In fixing the term, we have been guided by the belief that, in that time, you can master your appetite and come out a reformed man."

Think of the State licensing rum shops, and then having to send her ruined citizens to State Prison; that being the only place where prohibition prevails, and consequently the only place where her drunken sons may be safe. "It conduces to the public good."