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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

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Drink as the Cause of Crime

By Lord Chief Justice Coleridge

JUDGES are weary with calling attention to drink as the principal cause of crime; but I cannot refrain from saying that if they could make England sober, they would shut up nine-tenths of the prisons.—Lord Chief Justice Coleridge.