A FRANK ADMISSION

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 13, 1870

A FRANK ADMISSION.

A gentleman on his way from Boston to Lowell, took a seat beside a stranger in the car. An interesting conversation commenced between them, upon the times, prospects of the country, business, &c., the general line of remark by the Boston gentleman denoting that business was extremely dull.

“My business is very good indeed,” responded the stranger,—“never better.”

“What is your business?” asked the man from Boston.

“Well,” answered the stranger, “you know that any business which panders to the vices of men is always good, and my business is of that character. I sell cigars, tobacco, and rum.”

That was a frank confession. If there is an honest rumseller in the State, we think that he must be the man. But is it not humiliating that the most demoralizing business should thrive so well—that men whose sole trade is to corrupt society should be accumulating wealth faster than many men who are engaged in legitimate traffic?—The Nation.