the only temperance that counts is temperance in all things. Resolve to Clean up the Retail Trade and Your Own Business Methods. The past year has been full of events that should cause the brewer to stop, at this turn of the year, and take counsel with himself and with his fellows. He has been entrained, as the engineer would say, in the mad rush for the dollar, together with so many others. He has not always considered whither he was drift- ing. He has thus helped to supply ammunition to his enemies. He has in some respects laid himself open to just critisicm. The first resolution for the New Year should be to eliminate all the objectionable features which he has allowed to grow up in the business, as far as lies in his power to do so. Of that subject I spoke fully in last month's issue of this journal. Resolve to Enlighten the Public as to the Drink Question. But he also has sins of omission to reflect upon, sins against himself. He has allowed fifty years to go by during all of which time the enemy has been gaining strength. He has allowed the intemperate anti-drink "fans" to work undisturbed and unopposed upon the public mind, to dominate pulpit, press, public men, until today he awakes to find himself environed by a wall of prejudice almost as impregnable as it is unreason-