Liquor Selling and Crime
By Editor
GENERAL WOODFORD said at a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Law and Order League: "I can truthfully say that, in seven years’ experience as prosecuting officer in New York, I never have known a crime committed by force and violence that was not either conceived or executed under the influence of liquor." This is not the statement of a temperance fanatic, but of a man who declares that he is not a believer in total abstinence. In view of his statement, which is corroborated by the testimony of all jurists, who can deny that liquor selling ought to be treated as a crime? The man who incites others to deeds of violence is treated as a criminal, and the liquor seller’s sole business is to supply people with that which invariably leads to debauchery and crime.