January 9. As America is the home of the modern temperance movement, considerable importance attaches to the campaign against alcohol which is in progress in that country. The attention of the outside world has been drawn to the matter from time to time by the exploits of such fanatics as Mrs. Carrie Nation, but the widespread nature of the campaign against the liquor trade is hardly realized, and for this reason an exhaustive article dealing with the state of the liquor laws in America, which has recently been published in one of the large weeklies, is of great interest. The temperance movement in America owed its inception to a Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, who in 1785 published an essay, erroneous in many respects, on The Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and Mind." At the present day there are in America so many organizations seeking prohibition, or advocating teetotalism, or moderation, that it would require many columns, even to enumerate them by name. The most striking feature of the movement, however, is that it does
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