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A Governor Refuses a Liquor Pardon

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 43.

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A Governor Refuses a Liquor Pardon

Gov. GEAR, of Iowa, was lately asked to pardon a convicted rumseller, and replied:—
“While I have great sympathy for Mr. Newton, I also have great sympathy for the wives and children who have been made sufferers by the sale of whiskey to the fathers and husbands, by Mr. Newton. The petition cannot be granted.”
These words have the right ring. Other men are responsible for their acts, why not liquor sellers? A druggist must know for what purpose he sells arsenic, but arsenic never made a man commit murder, burn a barn, or beat his family. If the liquor traffic does no harm, then no damages can be collected, and the dealers are safe.—Ex.