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Licensed Rum-Shops and the Army Behind Them

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 3.

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Licensed Rum-Shops and the Army Behind Them

According to the report of the Revenue Commissioner, E. S. Young, there are one hundred and fifty thousand licensed rum-shops in the country. If we average the employees in these, including the owners, and add to them the landlords and others peculiarly interested in the traffic, we will, at the very least, have an army of half a million of men engaged in carrying on and endeavoring to extend this terrible business.