The Curse of Liquor by Eugene H. Chafin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 16, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 20.

The Curse of Liquor.

By Eugene H. Chafin

It is impossible to imagine any subject connected with the progress, the civilization, the physical well-being, the religious conditions of the masses, without encountering this monstrous evil. It lies at the center of all political and social mischief. It paralyzes beneficent energies in every direction. It neutralizes educational agencies. It silences the voice of religion. It baffles penal reform. It obstructs political reform. It rears aloft a mass of evilly inspired power which, at every salient point, threatens social and national advance, which gives to ignorance and vice greater potency than intelligence and virtue can command; which deprives the poor of the advantages of modern progress; which debauches and degrades millions, brutalizing and soddening them below the plane of healthy savagery, and fills the centers of population with creatures whose condition almost excuses the immorality which renders them dangerous to their generation.—Eugene H. Chafin.