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Though we must face the fact just expressed, it would

be monstrous to frame upon it a moral indiotment, or condemna- tion, of the men. To begin with, they are not conscious that by drinking more they are diminishing the country's strength at the front. On the contrary, we dare say that a great many of them imagine that a little more stimulant will help to increase their strength, and that the momentary glow from an extra glass nerves their arms, instead of drugging them almost as effectually as if they had taken opium or veronal. In a word, the men are very poor physiologists, and think intoxicants give power to the human frame. The only way is temporarily to put aside the temptation of drink and to make as nation teetotal till the war 4 over.

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