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Menelek Bans Intoxicants and Tobacco

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

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Menelek Bans Intoxicants and Tobacco

There is a refreshing common sense about Menelek, emperor of Abyssinia, in some respects at least. He has issued, says the Christian Advocate, "an order strictly forbidding the importation of absinthe and spirituous liquors into his dominions. He also forbids his subjects to use tobacco, under pain of heavy penalties. He also informs the representatives of foreign powers that he expects the support of friendly nations in these efforts to save his people from the influence of intoxicants and narcotics." Good! here is light from the Dark Continent.