mind that the results are of very little value as show- ~A ; devoted much time to efforts to controvert or mini- thirty for crime. The Rule of "Not Too Much." ard is pre-disposed, as the anti-alcoholist is, to intem- ing the actual facts, whereas they do seem to show the drunkard. The other keeps himself in check in that vestigations abroad go as low as two per cent for The question is a broad one as well as deep. For tributes to those evils, but is the chief cause of them. perance. The one lets himself go, and becomes a toward a percentage of twenty-five for poverty, about natural tendency of social reformers, as well as of the paupers and criminal themselves, to lay the blame are abnormal. It is not liquor that makes the drunk- per cent. The Committee of Fifty seems to gravitate sanity caused by liquor run as high as seventy-five Estimates of the share of crime, pauperism and in- respect, and goes to extremes in other things. Both my own part, I do not believe that twenty-five per ard, it is the man. It is not the fine cooking that makes cent is even approximately a true figure. Certain in- on liquor. It is the scapegoat. In most cases a drunk- 15 poverty. The wide divergence of results shows to my mize the charge that intoxicating drink not only con-