The temperance problem and social reform / by Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell.

  • Joseph Rowntree
Date:
1900
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    stricting the evil and those who deem this futile so long as social conditions are untouched.” Mr. KEIR-HARDIE:—'It is no figure of speech to say that this volume marks the beginning of a new epoch of the temperance movement. I cordially thank the authors for having brought temperance .reform within the sphere of the practicable.” LADY HENRY SOMERSET :—‘' We are on the eve now of a struggle which will probably be the decisive one, but which will be fierce and prolonged. At this point, therefore, it seems to me of supreme importance that the temperance forces should unite. Too long they have been severed and weakened by differ- ences which I believe must be overcome before their attack can be efficient, and it is for this reason that I, in accordance with many others, hail the appearance of a remarkable book, which is the most valuable addition to the literature of the temperance cause that, to my mind, has yet been given—I mean the book called ‘The Temperance Problem and Social Reform,’ by Mr. Joseph Rown- tree and Mr. Arthur Sherwell.” DEAN FARRAR :—‘‘I have read Messrs. Rowntree and Sherwell’s ‘Tem- perance Reform’ with great interest. It is a careful and valuable work.” CANON WILBERFORCE :—‘‘ Without endorsing all the conclusions arrived at, I consider Messrs. Rowntree and Sherwell’s book a most valuable contribution towards the solution of the greatest social problem of our day, and I trust that it will be widely read and studied.” REV. HUGH PRICE HUGHES :—‘‘ These thoroughly competent experts, after prolonged personal investigation at home and abroad, have made the best statement of the problem that has yet been printed. . . . We greet its appearance with gratitude: it is by far the most valuable and useful book on the whole temperance problem that has been published. . . . Weare con- vinced that the method suggested by Mr. Rowntree and Mr. Sherwell is the only practical method of dealing with this gigantic evil in the towns and cities of Great Britain.” CANON Hicks, of Manchester :—‘‘ Yours is the weightiest book I have ever read on the temperance question. Your statement of the case for permissive prohibition is all the more convincing because you are not so enamoured of it, as some of us are, as the chief remedy for the terrible drink evil. Especially do I thank you for pointing out so clearly the obvious dangers that beset the cruder proposals for municipalising the drink traffic. The positive proposals of your volume deserve the most careful attention, and may form a basis of union for all advanced temperance reformers.” Rev. F. B. MEYER :—‘‘ The publication of this book, as I venture to think, will date an epoch in the history of the temperance movement. I have read and pondered it with profound interest, and am convinced that the conclusions to which the authors have come afford a working basis for the ultimate solution of the vexed problem of the liquor traffic, The lucidity of the style, the judicial calm in which the various questions are discussed, and the careful arrangement of statistics are simply admirable.” REv. J. Monro GiBson, D.D. :—‘‘ The reading of this admirable book has kindled in me a new hope for the future of temperance reform, Nowhere else have I seen the terrible facts so skilfully marshalled, or the remedies so care- fully examined, The suggestions which it throws out for united action seem