p. 16 | Intemperance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 37.

Intemperance

Intemperance.—It is said by some one who has calculated the matter that the 240,000 saloons of this country alone, placed in a solid column would extend a distance of 1,000 miles. Both sides of a street, they would give a solid frontage of 500 miles. They would make 100 streets, each 5 miles long. What an amount of wretchedness and woe and misery and crime and evil of every sort is here represented. From these 240,000 schools of vice 600,000 drunkards annually graduate, 100,000 of whom are boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty; 100,000 of these drunkards die every year. In all these festering pools of sin woman has an active part. The United States census tells us that there are 9 distillers, 72 brewers, 105 dealers, 2,275 saloon-keepers, and 147 bartenders that are women.