Socialism and Teetotalism (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Socialism and Teetotalism The charge is often made against the Socialists that they ignore the importance of the Drink Curse and relegate it to a mere trivial issue of the capitalistic system. It is doubtless true that drinking is too infrequently condemned from Socialist platforms, and that when the subject is referred to there is often a disposition to put the whole blame for personal drinking on the "system." This disinclination on the part of some Socialists to recognise the individual side of the drink question is much to be deplored, for it tends to encourage personal indulgence and to furnish the drinker with the convenient excuse that he is the unfortunate victim of conditions, when as a matter of fact he is often the victim of his own selfish appetite and the willing slave of his own evil passions. But, notwithstanding, there is no set of individuals who better show by their own lives and conduct than the Socialists that temperance is possible for the workman under the present system, and that its practice is beneficial to the individual and to the movement. The Independent Labour Party, which is the chief Socialist body in Britain, contains among its membership a larger proportion of abstainers than any other political organisation in the country. Drink is sold in less than three percent, of its clubs, and the Annual Conferences of the Party have passed resolutions deploring the association of drink, even to this extent, with the movement. The growth of temperance sentiment in the working class movements within recent years has been most gratifying. Every man who has occupied the chair of the Trades Union Congress in the last six years has been a total abstainer. The majority of the Labour M.P´s are also abstainers. The practice of holding Trade Union meetings in public houses is beings abandoned; and so much is it desired to keep the organisations away from the drink that in 1906 the Trade Union Congress passed a resolution in favour of seeking the use of municipal rooms for Trade Union meetings. The Labour Party Conferences have passed strongly-worded resolutions denouncing the liquor traffic as a fruitful source of poverty, crime, and lunacy, and demanding measures of Temperance reform. 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.
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