p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 34. (9/1/1914)

Earlier text: What Governors of Various States Say

THE THREE BEST WAYS

BETWEEN

California and the East

The CENTRAL ROUTE

Less than three days to Chicago

The SOUTHERN ROUTE

All rail or via the palatial Southern Pacific steamers between New Orleans and New York

The SHASTA ROUTE

Via Portland or the North

The best of equipment and service Protected throughout by automatic block signals

INQUIRE OF ANY AGENT, OR MR. C. S. FEE General Passenger Agent San Francisco, California

SOUTHERN PACIFIC

Do You Drink?

Do you drink, friend? Science has demonstrated, by actual test, that the man who drinks, loses in memory, in application to his work, in concentration of mind upon his task, in effectiveness of service, in shortening of useful years. In brief, he loses mentally, physically, morally. Do you drink? If so, why not quit it forever? You are a man now. Be a better, a more useful man.

Repudiates Liquor Business

A DESPATCH from Pittsburg states that Jacob Friday, a liquor dealer, recently died, leaving an estate valued at $250,000 made from the sale of liquor.

He stipulated, in his will, that "any beneficiary of his will who should hereafter directly or indirectly engage in the liquor business should forfeit all interest in his estate."

This was his honest estimate of the traffic as he faced death.

Destroy the Destroyer

If you had admitted into your household, and sumptuously supported, one who you thought was a friend, but who years afterward was demonstrated to be the worst enemy of your family — physically, mentally, morally — would you be doing wrong to cast him out?

Granted that he had beautified his apartments gorgeously in your ample, hospitable home, and that he called apartments and furnishing his, you know that it all came from you, that he is entitled to none of it. Much of it was blood-money sucked by the vampire from the hearts of your children. Every consideration of justice and fatherhood would demand that the destroyer of your home be destroyed.

But, reader, that is what the liquor traffic is to California, to New York, to Oregon, to Washington, to the United States, to the world.

A mighty whine goes up from the liquor dealer, that it is unjust to destroy his business. From men who have not thought it out and thought it through, the whine is echoed in a plea for compensation to this destroyer of property and men and women and homes. "You must not put men out of business, you must not destroy this liquor business, which runs into multi-millions."

But look at the men, the businesses, that the liquor business has destroyed, the men it has put out of work, the women it has ruined physically and morally, the homes it has wrecked, the criminals it has made, the mighty pit in whose abysmal depths so many dead hopes are buried. Look at these and a thousand other broods of evil spawned in the fertile, reeking vat of the liquor business.

Is it wrong to put out of business that business which has destroyed more businesses, and put more men out of business, than anything else save death, whose chief lieutenant the liquor business is?

The verdict ought to be, Put out of business forever the business which puts so many out of business.

Destroy the destroyer.

The Mighty Helper

THE appeal of this paper is for prohibition. But before prohibition comes to many in this land, there are weary years, and months, and days, and hours, of temptation in the path of victory or defeat. Let us tell you of the One "mighty to save," who will forgive the past, who will take the feet from the mire and the clay, who will set them upon the rock, who will put a new song in your mouth, who will establish your goings, who will walk with you — Jesus the Son of God, the sinners' Friend. His grace is sufficient. Believe it. He can take away the appetite forever. He will take it away if you believe, unless He wants you to learn to battle for victory. Then He will give you grace to conquer. There is help in Him. Go to Him, just as you are. Tell Him all about it. He died to help you. His ears are open to your prayers. His hand is outstretched to help. He died to save you. Let Him do it. He will give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new life. Listen: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." Isa. 1:18, 19. "He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities." Micah 7:19. "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31. Enslaved reader, whoever you are, there is the freedom of noble manhood in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wine Growers Delay Nonalcoholic Production

Last year, the wine growers of California had made plans to turn their wine production into a non-alcoholic product after the manner of a new Italian discovery. But they have craftily deferred their project till another year, in order to give them something to howl about during the campaign.—The New Republic, May 22, 1914.

Credit to Temperance Publications

By Editor

For help in suggestions, in pertinent paragraphs, in illustrations and statistical pointers, we wish to give credit to the helpful "Prohibition Year Books," the "Anti-Saloon League Year Books," and to the temperance press in general. We bid them all Godspeed in their work for humanity.

Cooperation

By Editor

THERE are great things in this paper, mighty, convincing facts. What shall be the limit of its circulation?

Many will gladly circulate it who can not pay for it. Many have not time to circulate it who can pay for it. Let us cooperate. We shall be glad to do all in our power to unite these two arms of effectiveness in this campaign. Address Cooperation Corner, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, California.

Paper Prices

By Editor

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