Prohibition in Canada : 2
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article33056
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1917 October
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1917 October
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 1-16 p.
- Notes
- "A consideration of the causes which lead to the use and abuse of alcohol reveal at the very outset three salient facts, namely, that a taste for alcohol is an acquired one, that men drink from well known and specified reasons and for certain obvious purposes, and finally that the drink problem is fundamentally an economic one. Unfortunately, and the fact is one to be heartily deplored, the `temperance' or prohibitions movement has become greatly obscured by a vast number of extraneous and irrelevant side issues, and anyone who attempts to study the question calmly and judiciously finds great difficulty in arriving at the fundamental axioms which underlie it. This this should be so is perhaps inevitable since no great question of moral reform is wholly simple or devoid of complexities. All manner of secondary prejudices, religious, moral, economic and often purely fictitious in their content, obscure the view of the investigator and leave him almost in despair of ever straightening out the tangle. This is particularly true of the prohibition question, and the greatest care must be taken to steer a clear course, between conflicting currents so as to arrive at definite and satisfactory conclusions (p. 2)."
- Contents divided into sub-sections: Alcohol and Acquired Taste -- The Use of Alcohol -- The Moderate Drinker -- Why Men Drink -- The Drink Problem and Economic One -- Substitutes for the Saloon -- A Canadian Example -- The Opportunity for Social Service -- Conclusions Arrived At -- Conclusion -- Notes on the Gothenburg System -- Bibliography.
- Subjects
- Alcohol - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Prohibition - Canada
- Prohibition - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Liquor laws - Canada
- Temperance - Canada
- Gothenburg system
- Location
- General Synod Archives