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whole line, chiefly in eating, next in business keep- Their motto is "not strict laws liberally enforced, but ance movement like that which was killed fifty years ing the chase after the dollar within rational bounds agitation, absolutely unopposed by any rational temper- than temperance, as I have before shown in these columns. With progress in real temperance along the real, profound, unselfish joy, the shirking of burdens, little hobby, which really covers only a small, almost ed by the militant anti-alcoholist in the line of his ing trade as a whole, they want the laws enforced. hygiene and morals, which progress is being misdirect- insignificant part of the great movement, but by con- then in the selfish pursuit of pleasure at the cost of distribution the American saloon." One is politics. Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record-Herald recently. liberal laws strictly enforced." That is an important influence in the South. Vide The General Advance in Morals and Hygiene. The main thing, however, as I have pointed out be- Another is fanaticism, fifty years of total abstinence tion wave," however, than "hostility to our system of fore, is the gradual progress of people in matters of There are other things to account for the "prohibi- ago by the prohibitionists. magnified and made to work for intemperance rather centrating attention upon itself has been artificially

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