Of late years friends of our cause have fallen into the sad mistake of directing their main assaults upon liquor selling instead of keeping up also their fire upon the _use_ of intoxicants.

Legal enactments are right; but to attempt to dam up a torrent and neglect the fountain-head is surely insanity.

The fountain-head of drunkenness is the _drinking usages_ which create and sustain the saloons, which are often the doorways to hell.

In theory I always have been, and am to-day, a legal suppressionist; but the most vital remedy of all is to break up the demand for intoxicants, and to persuade people from wishing to buy and drink them.

That goes to the root of the evil.