The Profit in Liquor-Selling

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

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

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The Profit in Liquor-Selling

An angry liquor-dealer, prosecuted for breaking the law, bluntly revealed the secret of his law-defying business. "Judge," said he, "there's no use of your trying to stop liquor-selling. Just as long as there is eight cents profit on a ten-cent drink, rum will be sold, and no one can stop it."