p. 272 | Quarreled, and Shot by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

Quarreled, and Shot

By Editor

THE heading to a recent news item was, "Quarrels, Is Shot to Death in a Saloon." This is a very common items of news. Quarrels and scenes of that kind are very common in the saloon; but why do we not read items about people quarreling and shooting each other in dry-goods stores, grocery stores, hardware establishments, and the like? People in places of this character are sober, and are not tempted to be quarrelsome. But the saloon, by dispensing poison which the individual takes into his system, thereby dethrones his reason; and with his reasoning faculties confused, he is liable to do any kind of dastard and criminal deeds. There are plenty of things of this character that can be said against the saloon and the liquor traffic; but where is the individual that can truthfully say one thing in their favor? The challenge is out. Why do not men reply to it? The simple reason is that there is no reply to be made.