p. 16 | Sunday Temperance by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 12, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 45.

Sunday Temperance.

By Editor

The late Prohibition candidate for governor of Illinois made the sweeping promise that, if elected, he "would exercise his constitutional power to close every dramshop within the state on Sunday." On Sunday, forsooth! Naturally we would suppose that a Prohibition governor "would exercise his constitutional power to close every dramshop within the state" on every day. It is a sad fact, however, that the greater part of the temperance effort of our time stops short with Sunday closing of saloons. In other words, popular temperance reform has been prostituted to the position of a lever for securing enforced Sunday observance upon all classes.