ALCOHOL

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 17.

The French Anti-Alcohol Society, in pursuance of its campaign against strong drink, is displaying on walls and other suitable places in Paris small bills, on which are printed short sentences calculated to give pause to bibulous persons, such as the following:—

“Alcohol nowadays is responsible for more ravages than pestilence, famine, or war.”—Gladstone.

“Alcohol is no more a digestive than an appetizer. In whatever shape it presents itself, it is a poison.”—Francisque Sarcey.

“Do you know what that man is drinking from the glass which shakes in his trembling hand? He is drinking the tears and the blood and the life of his wife and children.”—Lamennais.

“Alcohol gives neither health nor strength nor warmth nor happiness. It does nothing but harm.”—Tolstoi Alliance News, London.