HOW MUCH OUGHT IT TO BE?
By Editor
DR. LYMAN ABBOTT justifies High License by saying that "the saloon should be made to pay fully for the wrong it does," and this is part of the wrong which he says it does:— "As a deceiver and a liar it swindles the poor and rich; it creates the base and horrible appetite on which it lives; it is a breeder of crime and poverty beyond anything else; it corrupts juries and courts of justice; it fills almshouses and idiot and insane asylums; it makes orphans of children and widows of wives, breaks up homes innumerable, robs men of their mental and spiritual worth; slavery never so robbed the workingman of his wages; Mormonism never so debauched womanhood, and struck so fatal blows at the home; it is a corrupter of the nation at the very source of its power," etc. Now will Dr. Abbott take pencil and paper and figure up for us just how high the license should be for the saloons "to pay fully" in dollars and cents for these wrongs which it inflicts on society? Come, Doctor, try your hand at it.—The Voice (New York).