The Liquor Traffic as a National Problem. By Will Reason.
'(Congregational Union. 9d. net.)—In this little pamphlet Mr. Reason, a well-known Chesterfield minister, writes very temperately on the various possible solutions of the drink problem without pressing for any one of them. He points out -that the alleged contribution of sixty millions to the Exchequer from the Trade Is in reality a tax on the customers from whom the publicans collect It. He warns the extreme Prohibitionist to remember that "the tad is the enemy of the good,- when he is considering the advantages and demerits of State Purchase. He lays stress, -too, on -the importance of considering and conciliating the opinion of the great 11158Ge3 who cherish" increasing resentment at the -multitude of regulations and the extent of inspection to whiela they are
subjected," While the well-to-So, as they think, are 'lad directly affected.
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