"No apology is, I think, needed for introducing this subject to the consideration of the Society, although I could wish that the task had fallen to one more conversant with it than I am. The evils of intemperance are ...

The writer of an article in our leading journal (1) says:?"The need of the moment is not to abolish the public-house, but to reform it. The first step is to give a very substantial preference in treatment to houses ...