The Temperance Problem and Social Reform
"The Temperance Problem and Social Reform," by Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. A compendious volume setting forth facts and figures concerning the drink traffic in the United Kingdom and other prominent countries. Its nine chapters are: 1, The Statement of the Problem, Growth of Temperance Sentiment and Change in Social Customs, etc.; 2, The Social and Political Menace; 3, State Prohibition (United States); 4, Local Option (in United States, Canada, Australasia, United Kingdom); 5, High License (Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota); 6, The Government Spirit Monopoly in Russia, and the Swiss Alcohol Monopoly; 7, The Dispensary System in the United States; 8, The Company System in Sweden and Norway; 9, The Solution of the Problem. The specific moral aspect is not considered, but rather a reform by legal processes, aided by the establishment of reading-rooms, lecture halls, exhibitions, clubs, etc., etc. There are twenty-six maps and illustrations, and the work abounds in valuable tables of statistics regarding the great evil of intemperance. 815 pages, cloth. Truslove, Hanson & Comba, 67 Fifth Avenue, New York.