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devoted much time to efforts to controvert or mini- mize the charge that intoxicating drink not only con- tributes to those evils, but is the chief cause of them. 15 The Rule of "Not Too Much." ~A ; Estimates of the share of crime, pauperism and in- sanity caused by liquor run as high as seventy-five per cent. The Committee of Fifty seems to gravitate toward a percentage of twenty-five for poverty, about thirty for crime. The question is a broad one as well as deep. For my own part, I do not believe that twenty-five per cent is even approximately a true figure. Certain in- vestigations abroad go as low as two per cent for poverty. The wide divergence of results shows to my mind that the results are of very little value as show- ing the actual facts, whereas they do seem to show the natural tendency of social reformers, as well as of the paupers and criminal themselves, to lay the blame on liquor. It is the scapegoat. In most cases a drunk- ard is pre-disposed, as the anti-alcoholist is, to intem- perance. The one lets himself go, and becomes a drunkard. The other keeps himself in check in that respect, and goes to extremes in other things. Both are abnormal. It is not liquor that makes the drunk- ard, it is the man. It is not the fine cooking that makes