Saloons Are No Sign of Progress by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 17.

Saloons Are No Sign of Progress

By Editor

The Denver Times says that the open saloon on Sunday "is not a sign of progress. It is not a mark of enlightenment. It is not an assurance of that strong, true morality on which alone are builded up stable government, and pure and orderly society." Very true. But is the open saloon on any day a sign of any of these things? Certainly not. And so far as they exist in any community where there are saloons, they exist, not because of open saloons, but in spite of them.