LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

MAP AND DIAGRAMS.

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Colored Map of New York City from the Battery to Central Park,
showing the Location of all Drinking-Places
Diagram showing the Comparative Length of Life of Employees
of the Brewing Trade with other crafts.

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Diagram showing the Longevity of Sons of Temperance compared
with the Members of Non-Abstaining Organizations.
Diagram showing the Relative Cost of Drink and of the Necessities
of Life in the United States

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Diagram showing the Expenditures for Drink compared with the
Amount paid for Wages, etc..

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COLORED PLATES.

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The Cancerous Stomach.

The Kidneys-Healthy State - Diseased from Intemperance
The Liver in various conditions - Healthy Section - Nutmeg De-
generation - Cheesy and Cancerous Degeneration Cancer-
ous Tubercles .

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Diagram of the Stomach in various conditions - Healthful
erate Drinking - Drunkard's - Ulcerous After a long de-
bauch-Death by Delirium Tremens

FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS.

THE AUTHOR

DR. WILLIAM HARGREAVES

Frontispiece

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Superintendent of Young Women's Work, W. C. T. U.

MRS. N. H. KNOX

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President of the W. C. T. U. of New Hampshire.

MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE

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MRS. ARMENIA S. WHITE

250

MRS. HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

American Secretary of the World's W. C. T. U.

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National Superintendent Scientific Instruction in Schools and Colleges.
MRS. JUDGE E. T. MERRICK.

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President W. C. T. U. of Louisiana.

MRS. SALLIE F. CHAPIN

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National Supt. of the Southern Work of the W. C. T. U.

MRS. MATILDA B. CARSE

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President Woman's Temperance Pub. Association of Chicago. MRS. L. M. N. STEVENS

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President of the W. C. T. U. of Maine.

INTRODUCTION TO FOURTH EDITION.

This introduction is meant to include whatever is important to be written, in order that the work may be as complete as I can make it to the present time.

The Temperance movement is for the moment arrested, or, rather, somewhat impeded by the course of events, but the evil remains and grows.

Every man, woman and child should stop, read and think. The subject is vast, complex and profound. It is a greater subject than the tariff or the financial question. It is a practical, economic, as well as a social, moral, religious, sentimental, national and international question; and the American people of all classes, parties and denominations must give themselves up to an earnest and prolonged study of the great problem.

This book has been written in the hope of aiding my busy, but anxious, countrymen to a knowledge of all the principal facts, arguments and measures involved in the conflict between Man and Alcohol, and of contributing something of solid and lasting, rather than of emotional, value to the great account. A book really of this character should be of much service in the present conditions. The people must know more of this business, or the work will never be done. I wish I could have better attained to my own ideal.

More and more clearly it is demonstrated by the course of events that the Temperance Movement will never be successful until the traffic in alcoholic liquors is felt to be morally wrong in itself; until the personal use of alcohol as a beverage and not as a medicine is admitted to be a sin in the forum of conscience, as well as an offense against society, and the tolerance of the traffic by the laws, to be a crime committed by society

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