p. 561 | Liquor’s Assault on Liberty

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

Liquor’s Assault on Liberty

NEVER in all time was there so debasing and detestable an enslavement of a people as that now projected in this country by the makers and sellers of liquor. Never in all history did such greedy and unscrupulous hands seize the reins of power as now stretch out from every brewery, every saloon, every dive, every brothel, every deadfall where thieves and thugs lie in wait for their prey. Never were there such despicable plots against the liberties of a people as those hatched amid the reeking fumes of the "gin mill" by men puffed and bloated with the gains of making drunkards and impoverishing the poor—

Toledo Blade.