conspicuous in the case of the Milan Congress, mitted in view of the following facts:

erican delegation was appointed by Secretary 7 virtue of an Act of Congress "providing for ne United States in the 14th International coholism." Under a privileged resolution from ules, the House of Representatives on the 20th took up and passed this law, not without vigorhe strength of the arguments advanced in its se of a somewhat protracted discussion, Mr. the chief champion of the measure, laid parhis statement, viz.:

to the moderate use of alcohol, or of total ibition, as well as those advocating various g the traffic in alcoholics, are allowed equal ss." (See Congressional Record, Aug. 26, 1913,

words mean anything, it is that the lawmakers ntended a representation of the United States he various points of view enumerated by Mr. re or less faithfully reflected.

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It does not require an unusual degree of sagacity to pre hat the report of such a delegation will be, and that Mr. Flo he really expected an impartial review of the proceedings, as ords clearly indicate, will be sadly disappointed.

In answer to a direct question by Mr. Gallagher as to whet complete report of the proceedings would be printed by overnment, Mr. Flood made this statement, viz: "No: no omplete stenographic report; but there is a report made by elegates of this government to the Secretary of State, and resident transmits it to Congress; and that report is printe See Congressional Record, Aug. 26, 1913, page 4,205.)

Thus, the report of this partisan delegation, whose memb e known throughout the country either as prohibitionists gorous opponents of the regulative and restrictive license syste revailing in four-fifths of the States, will become an official do ent, a fit companion to the garbled reports rendered by sim elegations to previous congresses.

ITALIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

Honest truth-seekers will regret the partisan character of t elegation all the more keenly, because the temperance movem Italy offers many very instructive lessons.

sible but a few years ago; and 2-because in lly, it offers a new and particularly convincing s error of those well-meaning but misguided ng use and abuse, fail to distinguish between rd, between the undeniable benefits of a sane gence of the universal human craving for stimuexcesses arising from temperamental defects, er, depraved tastes or morbid perversion of either or all of them intensified by adverse y the pitfalls and temptations of corrupting Lot infrequently aggravated by unwise laws. ject of this paper to place before the reader in a nner, and in the plainest possible terms, all ting exclusively from official sources, which isions.

GNOR FALCIONI'S ADDRESS

e Italian Government, Mr. Falcioni, Assistant erior Department, delivered a graceful address he greeted with a "fervido saluto" the men and thered there from every country in the interests ng for its supreme object the saving of mankind tive alike of all ideality and of personal and e then proceeded to enumerate the reasons had not before been selected as the meetinggress.

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keenly felt. It must be admitted, however, that coevally wit advent and growth of general prosperity, alcoholism beg nanifest itself and now gives rise to serious apprehensions."

In proof of this Mr. Falcioni compared the rate of deaths chronic alcoholism reported during the three years 1887-1889 the same death-rate during the year 1909, showing that v hese twenty years the rate had increased from fourteen to one for every million of the population. (The average prohib ist, ever ready to parade blood-curdling statistics of his own ma will on reading these figures, probably mistrust his own ey accuse the writer of falsification.)

Mr. Falcioni then continues: "It will thus be seen that fortunately for us, the evil has not yet assumed alarming portions, the rapidity of its diffusion is such as to impose up the duty of curbing it in some manner."

He then stated that the abuse of alcoholic beverages i confined to the industrial workers of cities, but is also beginni infect the rural districts where, as he puts it, "emigratio characteristic of the Italian agricultural population, tends and more to spread the evil." Leaving this aspect of the que Mr. Falcioni proceeded to a consideration of other obstacles i way of an energetic movement in line with the work of the Con in these words: "It should be borne in mind that Italy is a wine-producing country and that, naturally enough, the ulti outcome of your labors and discussions has often been contr with the supreme requirements and interests of national econ In this connection a regrettable error arose which has reta

913, Italy has taken the first decisive measure oses the foregoing extracts are amply sufficient. l-known observation, recorded by all unbiased x question, that up to within a few years the ed the very first rank among the nations noted spite of the fact that, France only excepted, nd next to Greece, the oldest wine-producing country in Europe.

SPERITY AND VITICULTURE

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