Two Plagues by Editor

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

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

Two Plagues

By Editor

Two Plagues.—The great white plague, tuberculosis, kills 100,000 persons a year. $8,000,000 was spent last year to destroy it and prevent its further spread. All are working to destroy it. Plague two, the liquor traffic, kills yearly from 500,000 to 700,000. It is regulated, licensed to destroy. There is legislation for it. In many cases, it is increasing its hellish work. Suppose that 200,000 doctors, 200,000 nurses, 50,000 grave-diggers, 10,000 casket and coffin makers, should petition Congress, petition legislatures, demand of politicians, that tuberculosis must not be stamped out. Their trades, professions, prosperity, demand that the plague be left at liberty, just licensed and regulated. A worldwide cry of horror would arise. But that is what we do with the worse plague of the liquor traffic.