The Enemy of Temperance by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 14.

The Enemy of Temperance

By Editor

The Advance says: "The greatest enemy of the temperance cause to-day, is the movement in favor of high license." We most heartily agree, although many good men are advocating it. It is possible for an honest man to be deceived or mistaken. The liquor traffic is an evil, and only an evil—an unmitigated curse. But when it is licensed by the Government, it is given the stamp of respectability, and is thus made a greater curse than it could be if unlicensed. To license the liquor traffic, is virtually to say that it is right, and the Bible says: "He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him." Prov. 24:24.