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Prohibition and the Alcohol Interests

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

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Prohibition and the Alcohol Interests

According to the Prohibitionist of November 22, F. D. French, an employe of the Postal Telegraph Company at Riverside, Cal., was discharged at the behest of the brewing interests of San Francisco, because he worked in the last election campaign on the side of Prohibition. He does not seem to have been offensively partisan or to have neglected his work. But this is a characteristic of the age. The myrmidons of alcohol are following the same tactics as the Sunday-law people. "Great is Gambrinus." "Great is Sunday." What is the difference?