Public control of the liquor traffic : being a review of the Scandinavian experiments in the light of recent experience / by Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell.

  • Joseph Rowntree
Date:
1903
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Credit: Public control of the liquor traffic : being a review of the Scandinavian experiments in the light of recent experience / by Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    embody almost every charge which has recently been brought against the working of the Gothenburg System. In order, however, that the reader may judge of the value that should be attached to Mr. Walker’s statements and opinions when unsupported by evidence, we shall in the first place give a few illustrations to show how slight is his acquaintance with the subject on which he writes. On page io, Mr. Walker says : “ In Norway, the samlags now generally have a monopoly of the sale of beer as well as of branvin.” As a matter of fact it is doubtful whether there is a single samlag which has such a monopoly. Mr. Jorgen Irgens, of Bergen, who is intimately acquainted with the history and details of the samlag system in Norway, writing on the 28th May, 1902, says : “ I have to state that none of our samlags has monopoly to sell beer or wine. Perhaps there may be one or another spot or village where such is the case, although I do