THE OTHER SIDE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

THE OTHER SIDE.

A GENTLEMAN once said to us, “I do not favor prohibiting the sale of liquor; it would be an injustice to the men in business; besides, it would throw thousands out of employment.”

We replied: “You do not look at the issue from the right side. You take a contractor’s view. “Just before the war closed, a government contractor said in a car, ‘I hope the war will not close under two years. I will lose thousands of dollars; besides, many men will be turned out of employment from the government works.’ “A lady passenger, clad in weeds of mourning, rose to her feet, and with tearful voice, said, ‘Sir, I have a brave boy and husband sleeping the sleep of death in a soldiers’ cemetery. I have only one boy left, and he is in front of the foe. O God, I wish the cruel war would close now.’”

He saw the point. Do you?

It may be your boy or your girl that will fall the next victim to the drink “industry.”

Would you consider the “trade” worth such a price? If not, for your own sake, and for the sake of other fathers and mothers, stop the murderous traffic.