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defending the comfort, the joy of living to which the masses are entitled not only in the same, but perhaps in greater measure than the well-to-do classes, for the latter have more opportunity for enjoyment anyway. The jests of anti-saloon orators and publishers and of the daily press about the saloon as the poor man's club appear inane and senseless as against the fact that all students of the liquor problem are agreed on this point that the saloon supplies the social wants of the masses better than any other institution. Such is the unanimous verdict of all honest investigators, sociologists, settlement workers, or whatever the form in which they have come into contact with the prob- lem. If our newspapers were better informed on the subject which they should be if the brewers had put the information within easy reach by a comprehensive campaign of publicity we should not find cartoons and funny paragraphs to ridicule the idea of the poor man's club. 139 The Rule of "Not Too Much/' I am not fond of using the catchwords that have been coined in certain quarters, but it does seem that the anti-saloon movement is well characterized as a fight of the "classes against the masses." That this is felt by the people at whom, individually, the fight is aimed, is well illustrated by an article reprinted

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