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the glutton, it is the man, and,.of course, his environ- ment, consisting of a thousand influences. But, be the percentage large or small, let us admit, for the sake of the present argument, that an ap- preciable amount of poverty and crime is due to the intemperate use of liquor. What does it prove ? What conclusions as to the use of fermented beverages does it justify? I should like to see a Committee of Fifty send out a few hundred skillful observers to gather statistics showing the percentage of crime, poverty, insanity, etc., that ought to be charged up to dyspepsia, indiges- tion, overeating, gluttony, or whatever they might wish to call the protean forms of that constant abuse of the alimentary canal to which nearly all people are 16 Irrational Betting. subjecting themselves. I do not mean only the con- firmed dyspeptic or hypochondriac, as they used to call this wretched being, I mean the chronic "grouch" of the man who does not feel right and doesn't know why after eating half a pound of meat and eight ounces of potatoes and a few ounces of vegetables, and bread and butter galore, and some pickles, and sweet- meats, and cheese, altogether enough to sustain a man for two days the ill temper vented on office help or factory hands, the whimsical discharging of faithful