Charity Forsooth by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

Charity Forsooth

By Editor

Charity Forsooth.—Here is a sample of several utterances of Edwin A. Brown, a sociologist of Denver, quoted in Mature Medicine of April:

"The churches do nothing for the penniless man. The saloons feed him and give him shelter from the pitiless winter storms."

To which we only need to remark that in nine cases out of ten the penniless man is a product of the saloons, and in sheltering him—oftener he is kicked out—the saloon is but returning a small part of what drink has taken from him. The whisky organization ought to pension the wrecks they have made. Charities of various sorts would have no reason to exist were it not for the saloon.