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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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Prohibition and Liquor-Selling

To those who think that prohibitory laws are good for every kind of crime except for the crime of liquor-selling, we commend the following letter written by Governor St. John, of Kansas: "I have the honor to state that so far as I have been able to ascertain, there is not now an open saloon in Kansas, nor do I know of any place where intoxicating liquors are being sold in violation of law. Although it is not at all likely that the prohibitory law will have the effect of entirely suppressing the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, yet it will come as near doing so as the prohibition against larceny does the suppression of horse-thieves."