It seemed to him like selling a man poison according to law, and then taking the money from the sale to help the widow to purchase mourning.

It was full as ghastly as that would be.
He went to see some of the other ministers, hoping to unite them in a combined attack on the saloon power.

It seemed to him that, if the Church as a whole entered the crusade against the saloon, it could be driven out even from Milton, where it had been so long established.

To his surprise he found the other churches unwilling to unite in a public battle against the whisky men.

Several of the ministers openly defended license as the only practicable method of dealing with the saloon.