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Show r A Growing Evil. The tendency to development of the drink habit and the danger of moderate indulgence in intoxicants intoxi-cants is well expressed by the Herald and Presbyter in an article which says: "If moderate drinking led to more moderation, and that to total abstinence, it would not be dangerous. danger-ous. The trouble is tnat it leads to more drinking and intemperances Fifty years ago, in France, the people drank freely of light wines, using little strong drink. But the French people have learned a sad lesson. Ihe wines created a thirst for intoxicants, in-toxicants, and now strong drink has a firm hold on that people. Light wines are no longer satisfactory; satisfac-tory; distilled liquor and drunkenness are the common com-mon thing. The average consumption of alcohol is thirty-three pints a year to each inhabitant twice as much as in Switzerland; eight times as much as in Canada. It is a sad commentary on moderate drinking, but a veryj suggestive one. Df. J. "Robertson Wallace in "The Young Man." |