Temperance Papers by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

Temperance Papers.

By Editor

"LAST week we noticed the publication, in Sacramento, of the weekly State Prohibitionist. Since then the publishers have begun the issue of a daily edition, smaller in size. This we believe is the only daily temperance journal in the world.' This is from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, of Oakland. We must remind that paper of the City Item, of San Jose, though it does advertise the saloon business. We are sorry to see that it has such a poor idea of the fitness of things. Immediately under an advertisement of the W. C. T. U. appears also a notice of the Tivoli variety beer garden."—Prohibitionist.

We have no desire to change our notice, because we are not prepared to admit that a paper which advertises saloons and beer gardens is a temperance paper. We have heard of those who pray, "Good Lord, good devil," but we do not call them Christians. Of the City Item we have no knowledge except what we gather from the above.