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Liquor Drinking and Social Status

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 12.

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Liquor Drinking and Social Status

The effect upon popular esteem of the results of liquor drinking is somewhat regulated by the social status of the localities in which it is indulged. Thus the Union Signal says: “Whisky causes ‘drunkenness’ in the Bowery, ‘alcoholism’ on Wall Street, and ‘heart failure’ on Fifth Avenue, N. Y.”