The Folly of Licensing Evil by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 22.

The Folly of Licensing Evil

By Editor

The Union Signal gives a just reprimand to a certain New York police commissioner because of his proposition to legalize gambling and the social evil, by licensing them. Amongst other good points it asks, "If God had said, 'Thou shalt not kill, three days in the week,' would there be less killing?" We answer, No; and we ask, On the same principle, would there be any less evil growing out of the liquor traffic by closing saloons one day in the week? Surely the Signal itself has demonstrated the folly of thus acknowledging their propriety on the other six days.