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The Social Cost of Strong Drink

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 1, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 27.

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The Social Cost of Strong Drink

By Joseph Chamberlain

If I could destroy to-morrow the desire for strong drink in the people of England, what changes we should see. We should see our taxes reduced by millions sterling. We should see our jails and work-houses empty. We should see more lives saved in twelve months than are consumed in a century of bitter and savage war.—Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the great English statesman.