stinence killed the American temperance movement about fifty years ago which up to that time had made good progress, jts principle being the temperate use of fer'tne^itieji beverages the whole drink question has been discussed on a false basis, and the public mind /". has; IreelV filled with a phantasmagoria generated in the unhealthy imagination t>f zealots, until today the country is overspread with a wholly false and un- wholesome moral atmosphere in regard to the drink question, so-called. The writer has not been afraid to call a spade a spade, and has lectured the trades connected with the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drink frequently with candor and energy in regard to such matters as called for correction, as the files of the AMERICAN BREWERS' REVIEW for the past five years will show. He believes firmly, however, that in a candid and rational examination of the subject the conclusion must be in favor of the temperate use of fermented beverages. The present articles are intended to contribute towards putting the public discussion of the temper- ance question upon a basis of health, morality, hap- piness, social order and common sense. CHICAGO, TIJ.., March, 1908. (March i, 1908.) The Motive Which Leads to Alcoholic Drink Is