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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 20, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 35.

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Millions in It.

MILLIONS of drunkards. Millions of paupers. Millions of criminals. Millions of needless taxes. Millions of wasted lives, and wasted dollars, and lost reputations and characters. Millions of desolate homes and broken hearts and disregarded vows. Millions upon millions of unhappy creatures, all made so by the use of rum; and the system that mixes the poisonous concoctions, distributes them over the country, puts them in the reach of every one, presses them into the hand and to the lips, protects and empowers the infernal traffic in all its hideous phases! This is the system which great masses are contentedly perpetuating, that delusive phantom, the license system.—Sel.