The Progress of Total Abstinence
A TOTAL abstinence journal called La Feuille de Temperance has been established in France. In a recent issue, Prof. G. Bunge, who is considered an authority upon alcoholic subjects, referring to the advance of total abstinence principles, says that when once established they suffer no arrest by obstacles, but are continually progressant. He reviews the prohibition movement in America, and says that in England there are 5,000,000 total abstainers; in Norway, 100,000; in Sweden, 60,000; in Denmark, 30,000. He continues: "The society of the Blue Cross, at ten years of age, counts 5,000 members, and the movement gains from day to day. They have established the fact that where the principle of total abstinence is once accepted the movement stops for no obstacles; it continually progresses, until at last it secures a strong majority in the Government and attains its end,—the prevention by law of the sale of alcoholic beverages."