High License and Prohibition by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 40.

High License and Prohibition

By Editor

A PROMINENT Catholic paper in New York says: "The liquor interest is unceasingly active, and men are drinking themselves to death, homes are blasted, children turned into the street, sorrow heaped upon families, while delay or debate is continuing." And yet that same paper, which is none other than the Catholic Review, is opposed to prohibition, and is in favor of "high license." Does its editor not know that the only effect of high license is to give a few men a monopoly of the liquor business? Liquor sold over a high-license bar is just as deadly as if sold in the dirtiest doggery in New York City.