An Alarming Feature

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

An Alarming Feature.

ONE of the most alarming features of the growing intemperance in our land, is the hold it is getting upon women. It is not an uncommon sight in this city to see women and children going from saloons with pitchers of beer. We frequently notice the patrol wagon hastening to pick up a woman in a state of intoxication, who, guarded by nicely dressed policemen, is taken off to a place of temporary imprisonment. Fashionable drinking saloons are elegantly fitted up in our large cities for society women of the wealthy class. The number of habitual visitors of such places is said to be alarmingly on the increase. In this, the devil is using his most ingenious devices to apply his deadly venom to the very heart of the race. Well may the alarm be sounded all over the land, and the strong ones put forth every possible effort to exterminate this terrible curse, when mothers begin to fall before the rum-fiend. Say or think as we may, these facts stare us in the face, and should rouse every lover of sobriety and virtue to determined action against this terrible destroyer of the human race.—Vanguard.