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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 10, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 24.

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It Don't Pay.

AMONG the things that don't pay, and will never pay so long as whisky is sold to the extent it now is, are the following startling facts. They are so true that they speak for themselves. Democrats as well as republicans cannot but admit their force.
It don't pay to keep fifty working men poor and ragged, in order to have one hotel keeper dressed in broadcloth and flush of money.
It don't pay to have the mothers and children of twenty families dressed in rags, starved into resemblances of emaciated scarecrows, and live in hovels, in order that the hotel keeper's wife may dress in satin, and her children grow fat and hearty, and live in a bay-window parlor.
It don't pay to have one citizen in the county jail because another citizen sells him liquor.
It don't pay to have ten smart, active and intelligent boys transformed into hoodlums and thieves, to enable one man to lead an easy life by selling them liquor.
It don't pay to have one thousand homes blasted, ruined, defiled, and turned into halls of discord and misery, in order that one wholesale liquor dealer may amass a large fortune.
It don't pay to keep five hundred men in the penitentiaries and prisons and hospitals of the State, and one thousand in the lunatic asylums, at the expense of the honest, industrious taxpayers, in order that a few may grow rich by the manufacture of whisky, and by swindling the government out of three-fourths of the revenue tax on the liquor they make.
It don't pay to permit the existence of a traffic which only results in poverty, crime, misery and death, and which never did, never does, never can, and never will, do any good.
It never pays to do wrong; your sin will find you out, whether others find it out or not. The sin knows where you are, and will always keep posted of the fact.—Exchange.