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The Public Good of Rum-Selling

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 26, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 17.

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The Public Good of Rum-Selling

By Bloomsburg Journal

WILL any rum-seller tell us of one good thing that has come to our commonwealth as a result of rum-selling? Rum-sellers are licensed for the "public good," what public good have they ever done? They live without work. Is that a public good? They consume our substance and produce nothing. Is that a public good? They live on the money that of right belongs to the wives and children of drinking men. Is that a public good? They impoverish the community. Is that a public good? They cause eighty per cent. of all the crime that is committed. Is that a public good? The above questions may be answered by any friend of the liquor traffic.