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Hayes Administration Bans Liquor Sales at Military Posts

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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

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Hayes Administration Bans Liquor Sales at Military Posts

ONE of the wisest acts of President Hayes’ administration was done almost on the last day. It is forcibly put by the Interior as follows: “The order prohibiting the sale of alcoholic liquors at all military posts and reservations of the government, is in fine keeping with an administration which has been noted for its purity and cleanliness. Such an order lifts the barrack and camp to a higher level. It takes away from many men the only temptation which forced them from the walks of civil life, and removes a fruitful source of courts-martial and insubordination. Once issued, the order will not soon be annulled.”