No Canteens

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 28.

The Voice tells us that from 22,000 to 24,000 soldiers at Camp Alger, in Virginia, have been able to get along for over a month without a “canteen,” which means a place where liquor is sold. Of course “bootleggers” bring it in, but these generally have been expeditiously suppressed. As a result there have been much less drunkenness, less fighting, less sickness, and better discipline. The soldier and the sailor and every one else is better off without the intoxicating draught.