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large proportion diseased, and should be treated 

 pathologically as well as judicially. This work 

 can be successful only when based on a true 

 diagnosis, that is, an accurate knowledge of the 

 trouble and its causes. The intemperance which 

 results from misery will be cured but in small 

 measure without a removal of the misery. If this 

 is not done, and alcohol is prohibited, it will either 

 be obtained surreptitiously or some other means 

 of vicious indulgence will take its place, and the 

 last estate, perchance, be worse than the first. 

 As a last resort, wretchedness will turn to suicide. 

 Intemperance caused by domestic infelicity will 

 be diminished, not so much by " Maine laws " 

 and "moral suasion," as by such education, and 

 perhaps restraint, as shall make ill-assorted mar- 

 riages less frequent. 



Mendicancy is largely the natural result of 

 intemperance and licentiousness. Laws against 

 tramps may change the form of the evil, — perhaps 

 to a more dangerous form, — but until parents, 

 and their children after them, are made to realize 

 that the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, 

 this scourge in some form is likely to continue. 



So long as houses of refuge and prisons are 

 schools of crime, it is vain to expect any large 

 improvement in police reports. 



