If the whisky-and policy-shops were all closed, the task would be easy.

In a single month the transformation would be marvelous.

But we cannot hope for this, at least not for a long time to come--not until politics and whisky are divorced, and not until associations of bad men cease to be strong enough in our courts to set law and justice at defiance.

Our work, then, must be in the face of these baleful influences." "Is the evil of lottery-policies so great that you class it with the curse of rum ?" asked Mr.Dinneford.
"It is more concealed, but as all-pervading and almost as disastrous in its effects.

The policy-shops draw from the people, especially the poor and ignorant, hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.