DRAFT 
OF A 
Bibliography of the Liquor Problem 
IN ITS RELATIONS TO 
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, POVERTY, 
AND CRIME 
SUBMITTED TO THE 
COMMITTEE OF FIFTY 
Nov., 1894 
BY 
Francis A. Walker, 
E. B. Andrews, 
Z. R. Brockway, 
E. R. L. Gould, 
J. F. Jones, 
Carroll D. Wright, 
Henry W. Farnam, 
Sub-Committed. 3 
FHE LIQUOR PROBLEM IN ITS RELATIONS TO 
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, POVERTY, 
AND CRIME. 
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Committee. 
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lished for the benefit of the Home. A record 
of work. 
Arnot, Rev. W.: The Criminality of Drunkenness, with the 
consequent rights and duties of Society in regard to 
the Criminals. Transactions of National Asso- 
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Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance. L. R. 
Marvin, Boston, 1828, 107 pp. 
Beecher, W. J.: Statistics of Temperance. North American 
Review, V. 141, pp. 154. 
Beggs, Thomas : The United Alliance and Permissive Bill. 
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motion of Social Science, 1862. 1863, 452-457 pp. 
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with an account of the rise and progress of 
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Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1840, 83 pp. 
Blair, Henry William : Temperance Moveinent, or the Con- 
flict between Man and Alcohol. William E. Smythe 
Co., Boston, 1888, 583 pp. 
Boies, Henry M. : Prisoners and Paupers. (Chapter XL) 
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1893, 318 pp. 
Bowditch, Henry I. : Intemperance in the Light of Cosmic 
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1888, 47 pp. From the 3rd Annual Report of 
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U. S. Brewers’ Association : Up to Date, a Review of some 
Important Phases of the Drink Question. N. Y., 
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burg Plan. Forum, December, 1892, pp. 514-526. 
Calderwood, Rev. Henry: Shops for the Consumption of 
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motion of Social Science, 1863. 1864, pp. 447-452. 
Carpenter, George B.: Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors 
in Health and Disease. Prize Essay. Crosby & 
Nichols, Boston, 1851, 261 pp. 
Clark, George Faber: History of the Temperance Reform in 
Massachusetts 1813 to 1883. Clarke and Carruth, 
Boston, 1888, 268 pp. A list mainly of the vari- 
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Collins, A. M.: Prohibition vs Personal Liberty. St. Louis. 
Collins, Bailie William : The Restriction of the Liquor 
Traffic in relation to the Diminution of Drinking and 
Drunkenness and Crime, as illustrated by the Forbes 
Mackenzie act. Trans, of the National Associa- 
tion for Promotion of Social Science, 1874, pp. 
922-930. 
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728 pp. 
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nenschein & Co., London, 1891, 231 pp. Observe 
particularly page 64 and seq. This work does 
not deal particularly with crime and its relation 5 
to alcoholism, belt incidentally there are many 
references made to that subject in its pages. 
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Canada. (Report of a non-partisan inquiry on 
the spot into the laws and their operation, at the 
request of W. Rathbone, M. P.) Cassel & Co., 
London, 1893, 432 pp. 
Faxon, Henry H.: Extract from the Public Statutes of Massa- 
chusetts, containing the laws regulating the sale of 
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Godkin, E. L.: Temperance Cause. Nation, V. 39, p. 258. 
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tion for Promotion of Social Science, 1859. i860, 
pp. 456-466. 
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Study of the Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent 
Classes. Heath & Co., Boston. 1893, 277 pp. 6 
There is but little claim made to originality in 
the production of this book, but the massing of 
authorities on the subject of drunkenness and 
crime is quite good. 
Hey wood, Ezra H.: Social Ethics: Free Rum, the conceded 
Right of choice in Beverages and required Power to 
Decline Intoxicants promotes rational Sobriety and 
assures Temperance. Co-operative Publishing 
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Schools and Colleges. American Report, Oct. 1888. 
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litical Education, 330 Pearl Street, New York, 
1889, 27 pp. 
Jewett, Rev. Edward H., D.D.: Two-wine Theory discussed 
by 286 Clergymen on the basis of Communion Wine. 
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Education, Circular of Information No. 4, 1893, 7 
445 PP- This volume is a collection of reviews 
of the most important works which have ap- 
peared on the subject of abnormal man. It 
contains a bibliography of 238 pages, which is 
very complete. 
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Medical Aspects. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., 
1891, 254 pp. 
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Criminal. The Monthly Summary, July 1893. 
In this paper the writer specially considers the 
extent of dipsomania among degenerate crimi- 
nals, and the parents of such criminals. 
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sis. American Journal of Insanity, October 
1893, 16 pp. This is a very worthy paper, and 
although it treats only incidentally of alcohol- 
ism, it is one which should be carefully read. 
Morton, C.: Great Evil of Health Drinking. Johnathan 
Robinson at the Golden Lion, in St. Paul’s 
Church yard, 1684, 127 pp. 
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National Association for Promotion of Social 
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large on the Mischievous Effects of Beer Houses. 
Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, London, 1846, 111 pp. 8 
Palmer, A. B.: Temperance Teachings of Science. Boston. 
Parish, J.: Alcoholic Inebriety from a Medical Standpoint. 
Philadelphia. 
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Atlantic Monthly, V, 58, 404 pp. 
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don, 1883, XIII, 279 pp. Chapter III, pp. 63-107 
relates to The Licensing Laws and Intemper- 
ance. 
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Roman Invasion to the present time.) 2 Vols. 
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hand-book for common schools. Sentinel Printing 
Company, Keene, N. H., 1884, 47 pp. 
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in the United States and Canada. Report of a non- 
partisan inquiry on the spot, into the laws and 
their operation. Cassell & Co., London, 1893, 
420 pp. 
Reforms : Their Difficulties and Possibilities. D. Appleton & 
Co., New York, 1884, XIII, 229 pp., Chapter XII, 
pp. 171-194 deals with the Temperance Ques- 
tion and its relation to Crime. 
Pitman, Judge Rob. C.: Taxation of the Liquor Traffic. 
Princeton Review, September, 1878, 14 pp. An 
argument against taxation, 1st, because it does 
not regulate the traffic ; 2d, because the emolu- 
ments arising from taxation are inadequate to 
the mischief produced by the traffic. 
Rogers, R. V.: Drinks, Drinkers, and Drinking. Albany. 
Samson, Dr. G. W.: Divine Law as to Wines. Lippincott 
& Co., Philadelphia, 1885, 598 pp. 
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don. Intemperance and Pauperism. Trans. Na- 
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Science, 1861. 1862, pp. 485-491. 9 
Sterns, J. N.: Footprints of Temperance Pioneers. New 
York. 
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1889, 90 pp. 
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U. S. Brewers’ Association, N. Y., 1888, 29 pp. 
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a?id ejfect. U. S. Brewers’ Ass’n N. Y., 1885, 
256 pp. 
Thomann, G.: Colonial Liquor Laws, pt. 2 of “ Liquor 
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B. A., N. Y., 1887, 202 pp. 
Thomann, G.: Second International Temperance Congress, held 
at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1887, U. S. B. A., 
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whole truth about them. U. S. B. A., N. Y., 1886, 
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Thomann, G.: Effects of Beer upon those who make it and drink 
it. U. S. B. A., N. Y., 1886, 46 pp. 
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by the Govt of Switzerland. U. S. B. A., N. Y., 
1885. 
Thomann, G.: Real and Imaginary Effects of Intemperance. 
A statistical sketch, containing letters and state- 
ments from the Superintendents of 80 American 
Insane Asylums, the history of 500 inebriates, 
the history of 671 paupers, and statistics of 
Drunkenness. U. S. Brewers’ Ass’n, N. Y., 1884, 
167 pp. 
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successful. U. S. Brewers’ Ass’n, 1885, 36 pp. 
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Meeting held at Antwerp in September, 1885. U. S. 
Brewers’ Ass’n, New York, 1886, 41 pp. 10 
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Roberts Bros., Boston, 1875, 223 pp. 
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Distilled Spirits. Princeton Review, March, 
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moral influence of such taxation. Good. 
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prosperity, and the rate of wages. Macmillan’s 
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(A critical review of Mr. James Whyte’s pam- 
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1893, 340 pp. A truly excellent work, and par- 
ticularly the chapters on etiology and pathology 
of alcoholism. It contains a genealogy of the 
“ Phultain ” family, which is very similar in 
principle to that of the “ Jukes ” by Dr. Dugdale. 
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