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