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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 4, 1876

Suggestive.

It is reported that the managers of the Centennial have licensed one hotel and fifteen restaurants, for the sum of $182,500, to sell liquors on the grounds; but that the American Tract Society has been denied the opportunity to sell tracts. This causes the Illustrated Christian Weekly to make this statement with which we heartily agree:—

“To set a score or so of bars running in the Exhibition grounds appears to us a needless insult to a large proportion of Christian men, and to involve a needless danger of possible insult and most certainly degrading sights to Christian women and children. The liquor shop has no more right on the grounds than the gambler’s table. The policy that refuses to the Tract Society permission to sell its books, and gives to the grog shop leave to sell its liquors, has no other excuse or defense than the bribe of $182,500, which the liquor shops pay for their peculiar privilege.”