One Million Dollars by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 1, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 34.

One Million Dollars

By Editor

Do you know, reader, that the liquor interests plan to spend one million dollars in California to perpetuate the liquor traffic, with all of its evils? That is what they voted to do here in California some time ago, and the recent national association of liquor men in Washington affirmed the decision made by the California liquor men, and voted to assist them in raising the million dollars.

That ought to show to the voters of California something of the immense profits that go to the distillers and the brewers. The wholesalers derive great profits also. Some of the saloon-keepers receive less, and some of them barely live. But the whole of the tremendous profit must be paid by the man who drinks. He gets out of it not dollars, lands, gorgeous palaces, expensive automobiles, and all the other accessories and appurtenances of wealth. He gets from it loss of manhood, disease, wreck of home, rags, poverty, immorality, criminality, and at last destruction.

The temperance forces have not one million dollars to spend; but on election day, it is not dollars we count, but ballots, unless the dollars buy ballots. Cast an unbought ballot for prohibition and prosperity.