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...John Graham Brooks, a member of the Committee of Fifty, lectured in the parlor of the Brooks House last night on the Liquor Problem. The agencies, said Mr. Brooks, which are working most powerfully and effectively for temperance in this country today are not the laws, not the temperance societies, but the railroads and great industries, by putting a premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee...
...Liquor Problem Club. The Last and Best News about the Liquor Problem. Mr. John Graham Brooks. (A member of the Committee of Fifty.) Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...
...Liquor Problem Club. The Last and Best News about the Liquor Problem. Mr. John Graham Brooks. (A member of the Committee of Fifty.) Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...
Prohibition, he said, cannot solve the liquor problem. State prohibition is already a policy of the past, for while it has been tried in fifteen states, it exists today in only five; and in these states the prohibitory laws are scandalously administered. Local prohibition has been successful in many rural districts, but has proved ineffectual in towns and cities. Prohibition has failed, because it does not represent public sentiment...
...partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...