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smaller percentage, is due to drink. And this icy atmosphere is more congenial to the growth of vice and crime than the generous warmth of feeling engendered by a glass of beer or wine. And the physical condi- tions fostered by this life are the pre-disposing causes for disease far more immediately than in most cases drink is the cause of poverty or crime. And with disease, vice and crime comes the untold misery, silent- ly borne, of hundreds of thousands of homes, filling the private retreats and sanitariums, where the charity 18 Temperance is the Key. worker who gathers the statistics as to the amount of insanity caused by drink, never sets foot, for he goes to the public asylums which are not shielded by the euphemism of "sanitariums." Then, according to the reasoning of the anti-alcohol- ists, you should stop eating! Prohibit the manufacture and sale of food ! Where's the sense? It is not to stop eating. It is to learn to eat right. It is for the adult to study the question, or take sound medical advice, and observe and govern himself. It is for the parents and the teacher to raise children so that their appetites shall be normal, that they shall not desire excess, but shun it "instinctively" if you like that word without the need of conscious self-restraint. It is for the legislator

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