tion and other public services—is a beneficiary e drink traffic."

E GOTHENBERG SYSTEM.

ates of prohibition are much given to citing em of handling the liquor traffic, which has roughout Norway and Sweden. Few of them nowledge of it, and generally they fall into the to be a means of almost absolute suppression urse it is nothing of the sort, while it has been essful in abating some of the evils of drink preference has always been for ardent spirits.

the Gothenberg system fails in its avowed inking to a minimum, may be estimated from blished in the Nineteenth Century. The writer, escribes her observations in the Scandinavian our specially undertaken in order to study the of the celebrated and much discussed Gothen

ys, "is easily obtainable by all who know the er whole life, she declares, had she seen such inking as in a steamer that plies between two And she proceeds to arraign the system in ic style:

so many Acts of Parliament been passed for ing man sober as in Scandinavia; nowhere municipal and communal decrees been issued;

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Ill Dergen spirit is sold only by the bottle, the arrests for drunkenn about 30 per thousand, while in Stavanger, a prohibition they averaged in 1899-1905, 33 per thousand. Now English can hardly claim sobriety as one of their special virtues; Christiania there are twenty more arrests for drunkenn thousand inhabitants than in London town; fifty-four more London county; fifty-six more than in Birmingham; and nine more, even than in black Liverpool. For the arr drunkenness to be in the same ratio to population in London, as they actually were in Christiania in 1911, 1,241 would have to be arrested every day, on an average.'

Miss Sellers allows that the regulations intended Gothenberg system would undoubtedly make for temperand would render it impossible, indeed, for a man to drink to excepting in private houses, were the drink trade entirely hands of the Samlag. But that it never is anywhere, e Norway or Sweden. In Stockholm the Bolag is only one many agencies through which spirit may be bought, and it bought there as easily as in London. Even in Christia Samlag sells hardly half the spirit that is sold, the other ha sold by privileged license-holders, who are free to push the and whose interest it is to push them. Nor is this all; th hotels and restaurants, as well as clubs, where spirit is sold consumption, even when the Samlag's own shops are clos there are nearly 300 houses which sell wine and beer unde cipal license, and there even boys of sixteen are served.

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whereas, when free trade in spirit prevailed, vian took seven days in which to drink his v often drinks it all at one sitting, with the s very drunk. Whether it is better for the n be very drunk one day in seven, or a little he seven, is a point which the writer says be called upon to decide.

r's sane conclusion: The united experiences Finland and Russia go far towards proving, ss to try to make men sober by passing Acts s people's kitchens be provided, people's n in little villages something in the way of als to inn-parlors.

DOCTORS OPPOSE PROHIBITION.

dical Society has recently concluded a fiveof the liquor problem in its social relations. assistance of the government in its work and oluminous report.

mfort for American prohibitionists and antiin the conclusions of this Swedish Society. to total prohibition. The report points out has been tried, as in some of our States, the ans reassuring, while in Swedish Lapland a roved so manifestly futile that it was soon the great difficulties in the enforcement of e to the ease with which alcoholic beverages

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The medical come as glave doubts about some

arguments used by total abstainers and apparently regret carelessness with which the opinions of certain medical me others have been suffered to pass unchallenged. It attribute uncritical attitude on the part of the profession to a common in the good intentions of the extremists, but points out the d of founding a policy on a prejudiced and unsound basis. A inquiry lately concluded is one of the few ever conducted u sound scientific plan, it is interesting to note that the work Galton Eugenics Laboratory is referred to favorably in the as free from the defects of earlier inquiries of the kind. Th which this work aroused at the time suggests that the report Swedish Medical Society will be denounced with no less vehe by reformers of a type only too prominent in this country.

(The work of the Swedish Medical Society is treated extensively in the second part of this book.)

SEES NO GOOD IN PROHIBITION.

Dr. Axel Holst, of Norway, who came to this country to a the recent International Conference of Hygiene at Washi seized the opportunity to visit some of the prohibition territ this country in order to see for himself how matters stand.

In an interview, which appears in the Portland (Me.) E Argus, Prof. Holst said he was led to investigate the proh he had heard so much about for the purpose, if possible, of fin system of regulating the liquor traffic that would be an im

r below the commercial standards.
winced that in the boasted prohibition system
hing that can be adopted to advantage in his

BITION A PROVEN FAILURE.

ge logical faculty reading that the people of p some 64,500,000 barrels of beer in the past million barrels over the previous year, will be reality of so-called prohibition. His doubt on learning further that the people, not content draught of beer, also stayed themselves with f whisky and brandy, exceeding the previous 00,000 gallons. In face of these facts he is meaning of prohibition, and the much heralded hibitionists to "dry up the whole country"

of humor. Finally, he is apt to conclude that e" is one which seems as miraculously indepen1ts as of logical processes.

will be confirmed in his view upon reading an Campaign Against the Saloon," recently pubagazine. The writer is Dr. F. C. Iglehart, a of the Anti-Saloon League, and presumably ell grounded in his facts and conclusions. The with all who are concerned to defend the theory his conclusions are not properly and logically acts. Thus he points out that "the United

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