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Liquor and the Price of Crime

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 22, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 8.

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Liquor and the Price of Crime

By Editor

It is impossible to give expression to our feelings of abhorrence of the dastardly crime recently committed in this State,—the murder of Dr. H. J. Glenn, of Colusa County. As usual, liquor is at the bottom of it, and what but the liquor habit could cause a man to deliberately murder one who had always been only a friend to him? But it will not do to say anything, for that liquor paid a revenue to the State, and the “temperance fanatics” must not be permitted to deprive the Government of such a valuable source of revenue. We believe, however, that the balance of loss and gain in this case has not yet been struck. Who shall audit the account?