The Saloon Problem and Social Reform (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Saloon Problem and Social ReformLenges the attention of the thoughtful and patriotic citizen more than the modern un-american saloon.) A brief statement of the economic, political, social, and criminal aspects of the problem cannot fail to deepen and strengthen the conviction that we are face to face with one of the most formida ble foes of social progress recorded in the history of civilization. In the preparation of this work there has been no disposition to unjustly arraign the saloon by the use of partizan statements and misleading argu ments. The plain, unvarnished presen tation of facts selected from the common experience of every-day life is damaging enough, without resorting to guesswork and unwarranted assumptions in order to chal lenge attention or to make out a case. Spe cial effort has been made to select from a large number of twentieth-century facts bearing on the saloon problem a few of the most typical and pertinent, in order that thefi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.