magnified and made to work for intemperance rather distribution the American saloon." One is politics. The General Advance in Morals and Hygiene. whole line, chiefly in eating, next in business keep- insignificant part of the great movement, but by con- than temperance, as I have before shown in these little hobby, which really covers only a small, almost The main thing, however, as I have pointed out be- ago by the prohibitionists. centrating attention upon itself has been artificially fore, is the gradual progress of people in matters of hygiene and morals, which progress is being misdirect- Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record-Herald recently. There are other things to account for the "prohibi- tion wave," however, than "hostility to our system of That is an important influence in the South. Vide then in the selfish pursuit of pleasure at the cost of liberal laws strictly enforced." agitation, absolutely unopposed by any rational temper- Another is fanaticism, fifty years of total abstinence columns. With progress in real temperance along the Their motto is "not strict laws liberally enforced, but ing the chase after the dollar within rational bounds real, profound, unselfish joy, the shirking of burdens, ed by the militant anti-alcoholist in the line of his ing trade as a whole, they want the laws enforced. ance movement like that which was killed fifty years