The Liquor Traffic’s National Harm
By Henry Wilson
THERE is to-day a larger army under its (the liquor traffic's) control, than went to the war, while those mourning over the vassalage and fall of loved ones exceed in numbers, and in the bitterness of their woe, the millions who were made childless and widows by the casualties of that fierce and sanguinary strife. And the terrible disease, like a cancer, is eating into the very vitals of the nation, destroying the mental and moral, as well as the physical fiber of the people. The liquor interest controls the cities and largely influences State legislation and the local politics of the country. And all this has come to pass notwithstanding the temperance efforts of half a century, the preaching of the sanctuary, and the presence and power of the Christian church.—Henry Wilson.