It Is Indeed Extravagant

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 31.

It Is Indeed Extravagant.

The Christian Advocate well calls extravagant the following statement credited to a woman of influence:—

To my mind neither the saloons nor the theaters, with all their attendant evils, do as much harm as the deadening monotony of unrelieved toil.

Now there are unexceptional cases of unrelieved toil, especially on the part of mothers and housewives, whose work is never done; but on the part of workingmen, whose day has, within a single generation, been reduced from fourteen hours to, in many cases, eight hours, there is no cause for mourning. A man, or boy for matter of that, is much better off at work than in dissipating. No monotony of unrelieved toil can compare in evil results with the saloon and theater.