The similar fevers and exasperations of factory life lead the workers to unstring their tense nerves with liquor.

The habit of snuggling up close in factories, conversing often, bench by bench, machine by machine, inclines them to get together for their pleasures at the bar.

In industrial America there is an anti-saloon minority in moral sympathy with the temperance wave brought in by the farmers.

But they are outstanding groups.

Their leadership seldom dries up a factory town or a mining region, with all the help the Anti-Saloon League can give.
In the big cities the temperance movement is scarcely understood.