ROWNTREE AND SHERWELL.
These temperance reformers and joint authors of "The Temperance Problem" declare that: — "In searching for explanations of the apparently wide-spread prevalence of drunkenness in prohibition towns and cities, it is neccessary to remember that much of the liquor consumed is of very inferior quality, and so compounded as to quickly produce intoxication. The evidence upon this point is conclusive. THE HON A. D. ANDREWS. TMs witness, who was Judge of the Municipal Court of Augusta, being asked whether he attributed the decrease of drunkenness in certain years to the effect of the prohibitory law, said : "No ; because in the year in which the law was most rigidly enforced, and when it was enforced all that it was possible for the City Marshal and his officers to enforce it, we had twice as many cases of drunkenness as we had at any other time." '1988
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6650, 23 November 1899, Page 1
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