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of the crippling of the great brewing industry. The letters referred to are as follows : 20 Responses of Committee of Fifty. From the president of Harvard University. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, Jan, 8, 1906. I can agree with some of your doctrine in the "Talks on Beer and Temperance" which you send me. Thus, I agree that "The main question is not what we eat, but how we eat," and also that over-eating causes quite as many bodily evils as over-drinking. It does not, however, cause as much crime. Further, I agree with you that it is better to drink beer than drink whiskey; but then it is easy to drink too much beer, as the experience of the German nation abund- antly proves. A cheap and good provision of beer and light wine will not prevent Teutonic peoples from drinking distilled liquor to excess. On this point see the experience of Cali- fornia. Drunkenness is a vice that goes by race. The Latin races are not addicted to it; the Russian and Teutonic races are. Very truly yours, CHARLES W. ELIOT. From Prof. Henry W. Farnam (Yale). NEW HAVEN, CONN., January 8, 1906. Please accept my thanks for the copy of your article on Beer and Temperance which I received this morning. I have no doubt that some of the pauperism and crime may be at- tributed, as you suggest, to bad food, but inasmuch as the

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