Note 16 — PREFACE.
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It is strange that the whole of the great Northwestern States of America, by the vote of the people, made their States completely dry, and that without compensation to the saloonkeeper, yet our people, amongst whom it has such a ruinous effect, cannot hold a Christian patron day without traffic in intoxicating liquors. In the United States a minor dare not enter a saloon, and a saloonkeeper is debarred from entering almost all lodges—even many Christian churches have refused to accept their money; yet in our parts a publican will be elected a district and county councillor before most other persons in the neighborhood.