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Beer Shops and Public Immorality

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 36.

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Beer Shops and Public Immorality

By Lord Brougham

To what good is it that the Legislature should pass laws to punish crime, or that their lordships should occupy themselves in trying to improve the morals of the people by giving them education? What could be the use of growing a little seed here and plucking up a weed there, if these beer shops are to be continued to grow seeds of immorality broadcast over the land, germinating the most frightful produce that ever has been allowed to grow up in a civilized country, and I am ashamed to add under the fostering care of governments? —Lord Brougham.