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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 21.

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Intemperance and Crime

At a recent temperance meeting in New York, Judge Noah Davis said that next June would complete his twenty-sixth year of judicial service in that city.
"I have been compelled during that time," said he, "to pass sentence of death on many people, and in nearly every instance the poor culprit has pleaded that he was drunk when he committed the crime. The law is, unfortunately so unjust that it makes drunkenness an aggravation of crime, and yet licenses thousands of places to make men drunk. I have passed thousands of sentences for minor offenses, homicides, assaults, and larcennies, and I solemnly aver that in a great majority of cases intemperance has been the direct cause of crime."