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WHISKY THE DEVIL'S AGENT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 21.

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WHISKY THE DEVIL'S AGENT.

The other day Judge Wofford, of the criminal court of Kansas City, was sentencing a young man who had just been found guilty, to a term of years in the penitentiary. He took occasion to deliver a lecture while passing the sentence. He said, in part:
"Whisky is the devil's agent. Four-fifths of the time of this court is taken up with crimes caused by whisky. The greatest evil that now affects this country is the abuse of whisky. Every day men are swimming to the penitentiary in whisky."—Selected.