Because He Got Drunk by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 7, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 26.

Because He Got Drunk

By Editor

A YOUNG man was sent to San Quentin for seventeen years for implication in a murder committed near Sacramento. He was a mere schoolboy at the time of the murder. After serving eleven years of his seventeen-year sentence, he was paroled, and had led two years of honorable life. But a few days ago, he got into a drunken brawl, and broke his parole, and had to be sent back to the prison for the rest of his term.

There are many evil things of this character that can be said in regard to the whisky business, but there is no one redeeming thing that can be said in its favor. A business that is evil and only evil ought to be stamped out. Why is it that men who seem to be able to reason intelligently upon other subjects lose their senses when they come to this question, and will stand in favor of a traffic that is sending men to the penitentiaries, the gallows, and into all the other various kinds of degradation that are incident to indulging strong drink?