SALOONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1055, 26 May 1910, Page 23

SALOONS.

Keeping a saloon should be as reputable a business as keeping a dairy restaurant. The sale of j liquor is no more inherently wrong than the sale of cigars or drugs. A man can poison himself; but that is no argument for closing up drug stores either Sundays or any other day. A man can ruin his health, make his temper peevish, and destroy the peace of his family and his own digestion by bolting his food too fast over a lunch counter. More household rows and doctors’ fees come from bad eating than from bad drinking. And there would not be half as many cases of bad drinking were the liquor business put on a proper and respectable law-abiding basis.—“ New York World.”