uses: Fear of excesses among the colored d of certain elements in the trade, clever litical purposes, abetted by the organization League which naturally finds ingress easier lation not so sharply divided on religious lines. at in earlier years the control of the liquor and effective legislation had almost wholly South. STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION he author upon the subject of effectiveness of lue to the curious doctrine held by many of t it is better to have prohibitive laws that are zenly violated, do not diminish drunkenness om intemperance, but are attended by endless old the traffic in check by sane and therefore n. He apologizes for the non-enforcement in xplains it by saying that "the reason why the indled almost to a point (in 1911) was the ement of the law, by the officers in authority, osition to any officer who should try to do his ne should reason that such conditions would ibition vote, especially after a State-wide h is, of course, that, habituated to an extraal vision, people in Maine wink at open and of the law, yet vote for its retention. peful of a better observance of the constitution to preve whether cause" a as nothin acceptan In t conventio we read o graft and prevent shipment of liquor into "dry" territory from other Stat hether it be held valid or not. Explanation of "setbacks to t use” are not illuminating and in part suppress the truth, so lo nothing is said of the failure of prohibition as a deterrent to ceptance by other States. "SUNDAY OPENING" IN NEW YORK In the platform of the Fusionists adopted at their rece nvention for the purpose of selecting a mayoralty candida e read of their demand for home rule, which has direct reference nday opening. Our author says "the liquor traffic has ma perious and insistent demand for Sunday opening." In N ork City the past year, as in about every every other year for t st twenty, the same demand for legalized Sunday opening w ade. It is conceded, however, "that some well-meaning peopl ve shared the same view. Is it not the truth that a large body izens who are eager to free the city of New York from poli aft and other disorders have favored Sunday opening, and th ey have gone directly to the Legislature for this purpose? T iter slurs over this inconvenient fact and characterizes the effor eminent fellow citizens as “blind," and as “provoking the Ame n conscience to anger." Although it is well known that the sentiment of New York Ci overwhelmingly in favor of a limited Sunday opening, and wou on obtain it under a decent measure of home rule, we are calm formed that "there was no call for a Sunday opening in New Yor at most of the great cities of the country enforce the Sunda >sing measures," etc. Fourteen of the great cities are conced restrictive legislation for the control of the seeks to coerce by threats and to convince by rticle, thereby alienating those who are genut sobriety; and that by preaching the outworn can be made sober by act of legislature and nd it, drunkenness is not diminished, but the o more obscure and perhaps more dangerous oof of the last statement is needed than the uthor concerning the proportion of population hibition of some form, which he asserts to be e-half of the population." Unquestionably, nse population has increased by leaps and ame time there has been no diminution in the ion of liquors. One is therefore forced to onclusions: Either the alleged gains for temaper values very largely, or the population must year by year have become more drinkhey are the least temperate people in the world. eader may choose for himself. For his guidance gures published by the United States Internal he fiscal year ending June 30th, 1913. They roduction of whiskey, vinous liquors and beer. interpreted thus in the terse language of the ely known journals: "The more 'dry' area, '-"More prohibition, more drinking." Under ces the growth in the manufacture of beer oped that of distilled liquor. But the last apparentl significan internal r de of Schiller's play it has produced none un ne liquor problem is not a matter of concern to eneva and St. Moritz, or Basil and Lugano. sive or intensive slums in Switzerland; certainly h for its iniquity to be pointed out to visitors. of the country is small, but there are plenty of ence of bad quarters can scarcely be attributed on. On a territory of considerably smaller area s, we have a dozen cities of more than 50,000 The oldest of them, St. Gallen, was a city of on when Charlemagne mounted the throne, the list were middle-aged before Columbus set t phenomena of metropolitan wickedness have he liquor problem nor in any other. e beyond the reach of police graft. They are politicians nor do they appear in politics except dealt with in the interest of the commonwealth. intemperance, of course, both in drink and in , but drunkenness as a public phenomenon, or , are unknown. o outside incentive to my conducting a research subject during my recent visit to the country. ggestion in this direction arose from the perusal 1 broadcast by the Boston & Maine Railroad. ich the New England line derives part of its efore my attention as "The Switzerland of the Lucerne was fou laken, to that I nowhere Swiss at Jacob A now a re is certai ties on t here and America countryr America in the So which h of my qu "Th There is makes t second i mentione Their pri goes. T rural ho stamp ou inverse ra |