ALCOHOL ON TRIAL
Is it right to build churches to save men and at the same time license hotels that destroy them? Is it right to license a man to sell that which will make a man drunk and then punish the* man for being drunk? Is it right to license a man to make paupers and then tax sober men to take care of them? Is it right to license hotels to teach vice and then tax people for schools to teach virtue? Is it right to derive a revenue out of a traffic which no decent man ■defends ? Is it right to teach your boy not to drink, and then vote to license a place where he may be taught to drink? Is it right to teach your boy to restrain his passions and then vote to license a place where his worst passions will be inflamed? Is it right to take care of your own Ik>> and vote to license a place that will ruin your neighbour’s boy? Is it right to preach justice and charity and then vote to license a thing which rohs widow’s and orphans of their bread? —Round Table.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 10, 1 December 1950, Page 3
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196ALCOHOL ON TRIAL White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 10, 1 December 1950, Page 3
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