p. 15 | Prohibition Does Not Destroy Towns by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

Prohibition Does Not Destroy Towns

By Editor

The friends of the liquor traffic talk glibly about saloons and breweries and distilleries building up towns. On this proposition the North Carolina Baptist says: "That which destroys human flesh and blood and increases crime and causes sorrow can not make a town." As illustration that prohibition does not kill a town, the same paper cites the case of Greensboro, in that state, a prohibition city, where 1,200 houses were built last year. But we have older testimony than that on this subject. The Lord says, "Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! . . . Wo unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!" Hab. 2:12-15.