p. 13 | HOW THE SALOON HELPS BUSINESS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

HOW THE SALOON HELPS BUSINESS.

At Hamilton, Ohio, one pay day, a student of social phenomena witnessed a transaction of very great significance, which shows how the saloon helps business. As the employees approached the cashier’s desk he observed that one of them was accompanied by the collector of a saloon, to whom he authorized the cashier to pay the amount due, according to the bill. The cashier obeyed instructions, paid to the collector the amount of his claim, and the employee the balance of his wages for that week. After the saloon-keeper’s claim had been met, the workingman received five cents. Our “student,” curious to know more of his life, went to his home, and learned that his wife was then engaged upon the third washing for that week.—Selected.