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On the iniquitous traffic in whiskey: from 1906

115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 7, 1906from the Mathews Journal It must be a source of great regret to the law abiding and self-respecting people of this county that it seems a matter of impossibility for the officers of the law to secure evidence against those people who disregard both the laws of the State and the moral law and carry on an iniquitous traffic in whiskey. There can be no question that there is inherent evil in whiskey selling, regardless of law, and that it is an evil that is far reaching must be admitted by all candid and honest minds. It is so well known that to state it is to prove its truth that men who hang around places where everything points to the sale of whiskey, men who go there sober and return either drunk or with their breath reeking with the odor of whiskey, men otherwise respectable, will patronize these places and will afterwards swear upon oath that they have purchased nothing containing spiritous or malt liquor in Mathews county in two years. 110 YEARS A...

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