The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

'Appendices.
totally exclude, the brewer's profit." But the retailer,
when a tenant of the brewer or distiller, has his own private and cogent reasons for making use of the druggist.
In almost every ginshop and public-house the charge
per gallon for malt liquor or ardent spirits is less than
the wholesale price adding the duty!' One of two things,
therefore, either the retailer gets no profit, or his profit
is obtained from dealings with the liquors before they
pass into his customers' hands. Mere dilution with
water, while a fraud upon the buyer, would not be objectionable in regard to the effect produced; but, as the buyers pay for excitement, and will have it, the seller is
tempted to add further injury to fraud by adding from
dark and occult sources to the poisonous potency of his
measures. One of the worst effects of this practice is,
that it enables so many drinksellers to remain in the
business, and thus add to the public temptations to
intemperance which the common sale of intoxicating
liquors inherently presents.
D.
NATURE OF THE TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING DRINKS.
THE difference between legitimate trade and the traffic
in intoxicating liquors is not incidental but fundamental,
residing in these two points, (I) that the articles sold are
in other cases an improvement on the raw material, and
that (2) an increase of trade is a banafide increase in the
national comfort and prosperity. In the traffic in intoxicating drinks these characteristics are not only absent,
but the opposite are present in the most terrible forms.
The drinks themselves have wasted in their manufacture
the harvests of vast regions, and are not consumed for
the little nutriment they retain. But in the place of food
there is a poison. What the common sale ofalcoholic con'
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