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Benefits of Prohibition in Edwards County

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 24.

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Benefits of Prohibition in Edwards County

The people of Edwards county, Illinois, decided twenty-five years ago that no intoxicating liquors should be sold in that county, and since that time they have sent but one person to the penitentiary, and he committed a crime while drunk with whisky procured in an adjoining county; they support but two or three paupers, and their jail is empty most of the time. Their taxes are thirty-two per cent. lower than the adjoining counties, and their terms of court occupy but three days in the year, while their tax rolls show that they return more property than any other county in the State of equal population.