So convinced are all Governments and peoples that drinking and crime are closely connected, that much has already been done, with good effect, to lessen the sale of intoxicants in many lands, and more is being promised.

Anxious as we are to see the drink-traffic abolished everywhere, it has never appeared to us to be desirable to join in agitations of a political kind on the subject.

And the wisdom of this attitude has been shown, on both sides of the Atlantic, by the manner in which this question has been used to embitter party strife.
But it was a puzzle at first to know by which course to steer.

When a Licensing Bill was before the English House of Commons, The General wrote:-- "The Licensing Bill has given me much anxiety, mainly because I see so imperfectly what we ought to do.

However, we shall do what seems the best to be done--with what success has to be seen.