Look out for Danger

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

Look out for Danger.

A PAPER in San Francisco records the murder of a wife by a drunken husband. It appeared in evidence that he was accustomed to maltreat his wife when he was drunk.

In the same column is recorded the arrest of a man who rigged himself up in a fantastic manner, as a means of advertising, whereby teams were frightened and the lives of passengers were endangered. The paper says:—

"He says he is a family man, and must work; but the authorities should not permit him to earn his livelihood by endangering the lives and properties of citizens."

All right; but the same rule would stop the traffic of the men who sold liquor to the man who became drunk and murdered his wife. That is no new freak in the history of alcohol. It "is wont to do so in time past." See Ex. 21:29.