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Women and Intoxicating Liquor

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 25, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 8.

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Women and Intoxicating Liquor

In the Colorado Senate, a few days ago, Senator John Hecker, of Denver, affirmed that “twenty women to one man, in Denver, drink intoxicating liquor, and they drink more than men.” The senator was doubtless a bit excited, and overdrew the facts. But there is no denying the truth that women are coming to drink a great deal more than in former days. Reliable statistics show an increase each year of the amount of intoxicants consumed, and the women are bearing their part of this wrong.