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Cast Adrift

CHAPTER XIV
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And what is marvelous to think of, the larger part of these persons are actually licensed by the State to get gain by hurting, depraving and destroying the people.

Think of it, Mr.Dinneford! The whole question lies in a nutshell.

There is no difficulty about the problem.

Restrain men from doing harm to each other, and the work is more than half done." "Is not the law all the while doing this ?" "The law," was answered, "is weakly dealing with effect--how weakly let prison and police statistics show.

Forty thousand arrests in our city for a single year, and the cause of these arrests clearly traced to the liquor licenses granted to five or six thousand persons to make money by debasing and degrading the people.


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