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Excerpt from Substitutes for the Saloon This is the third volume issued by the direction of the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem. The committee was organized in 1893 to secure a body of facts which may serve as a basis for intelligent public and private action. It is the purpose of the committee, as its first announce ment stated, to collect and collate impartially all accessible facts which bear upon the problem, and it is their hope to secure for the evidence thus accu mulated a measure of confidence on the part of the community which is not accorded to partisan state ments. Thus, as was said by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner (harper's Magazine, February, it was from the first understood that the prime business of the committee was not theexpression of opinion, or the advancing or advocacy of one theory or an other, but strictly the investigation of facts without reference to the conclusions to which they might lead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.