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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 7.

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THE SALOON AND DRINK.

What They Think of It.

A CURSE.—Queen Victoria. A scandal and shame.—Wm. E. Gladstone. Traps for workingmen.—Earl Cairnes. Devilish and destructive.—Lord Randolph Churchill. Stupefies and besots.—Bismarck. The mother of sins.—Southey. The devil in solution.—Sir Wilfred Lawson. Liquid fire and distilled damnation.—Robert Hall. The mother of want and the nurse of crime.—Lord Brougham. A poison in politics as well as in society.—Sir W. Harcourt. The nation is being throttled by the traffic.—Lord Rosebery. A huge nuisance and misery.—London Times.
Yet this "curse," so "devilish and destructive," that "stupefies and besots," "the mother of sins," "of want, and the nurse of crime," "the devil in solution," "the nation's scandal and shame," and "the trap for workingmen," the English nation legalizes, protects, and cherishes at a cost of well-nigh seven hundred million dollars, and the American nation does the same with the huge curse at a cost of one billion dollars.—Selected.