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rural districts, has invariably failed when applied 

 to important urban centres."^ 



In none of the Prohibition States do the in- 

 habitants dwell under the ordinary conditions of 

 civilised life — the population is as yet too scanty — 

 but before many decades pass they will certainly 

 do so. Westmoreland, the least densely-populated 

 English county, has more than twice as many 

 people to the square mile as New Hampshire, 

 the most densely - populated Prohibition State. 

 Lancashire and Surrey have fifty times as many ; 

 'Middlesex two hundred and eighty times as many. 

 The average density of population for the whole 

 of England and Wales is more than twelve times 

 greater than that of New Hampshire.^ 



In England and Wales there are sixty -two 

 towns of more than 50,000 inhabitants, and 41 per 

 cent, of the total population live in such towns. In 

 New Hampshire there is not a single town of 50,000 

 inhabitants, and only 28 per cent, live in towns of 

 upwards of 8000 inhabitants. The population falls 

 in the other Prohibition States till, in North Dakota, 

 we find the whole of the population is rural,^ 



The conditions in the Prohibition States are, 

 therefore, immensely more favourable to the success 

 of a policy of compulsory abstinence than they 



1 "The Temperance Problem and Social Reform," p. 124. 

 ' Op. at, pp. 248-9. 2 Q^^ cit^ pp_ 248-9. 



