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Saloons and Municipal Bankruptcy

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38.

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Saloons and Municipal Bankruptcy

ELIZABETH has from one hundred and fifty to two hundred licensed saloons, and yet, with the revenue derived from these licenses, Elizabeth is the worst bankrupted city in the state.—Central New Jersey Times.
Of course it is, unless some place having more saloons in proportion to population, for every dollar received by any municipality for license is a germ of evil, producing a luxuriant harvest of intemperance, pauperism, and crime, which must be gathered at the expense of industry and sobriety, and when the growth is excessive, bankruptcy is inevitable.—Sabbath Recorder.