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Excerpt from An Address of the Representatives of the Religious Society of Friends: For Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, to Their Fellow-Citizens, on the Use of Intoxicating Drinks
Many of the moral class of the citizens of Philadelphia, who are accustomed to look with complacency upon the character and prosperity of their city, are, we fear, closing their eyes to the true state of its population in regard to this grave subject. What can support the vast array of drinking places that stand so thickly on the more central streets, and at nearly every corner of the city suburbs, but an enormous consumption of liquor, that must seri ousl y affect the majority of the people and fearfully debauch their social condition? What but this has called for such great in crease of room in the prisons, houses of correction and of refuge, almshouses and police stations, within the past twenty years? And which, in a large measure, has cast nearly fifty thousand people on the charity of the public every winter in Philadelphia for the last five years!
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