The Second International Temperance Congress, Held at Zürich, Switzerland, 1887; a Review of the Official Report

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... the climax of his recklessness he said, literally: --The writer re-translates Mr. Malins' words from the German text of the official report. / stand by the turns which I said the brewers of the United Slates endeavored to raise; but undoubtedly Mr. Thomann is better authority. If they only raised $13,000 for recent battles, that sum was certainly too small, for it is generally known that the liquor dealers of Texas alone asked for $10,000. Confronted with a flat denial, Mr. Malins claimed to have said that brewers endeavored to raise said sum. This claim, however, was false. He said--and the report proves this--that they had raised it. But even so, he told a falsehood; for the brewers never even dreamt of endeavoring to raise such a sum. Malins said that Texas asked for $10,000. Well, suppose that the liquor-dealers of Texas had asked for such a sum, and suppose that the other two States had each ashed for the same sum; and suppose, altogether they would have received $30,000, which, in fact, they did not receive, what would that prove for Mr. Malins' veracity, who stated that twelve million francs (equal $2,400,000) had been appropriated by the last Brewers' Congress! He admitted that he knew nothing concerning the increased use of opium; nor of the relative proportion of pauperism; nor of the sale of liquors in spite of prohibition; but he evidently deemed that unnecessary, in view of his allegation, that he could cite, if he but had the documents with him, that several governors of Maine had pronounced prohibition a complete success. The reader is well aware that the contrary is true; that no governor of Maine ever dealt with this question without recommending more stringent laws, because prohibition failed to do what its advocates..