Excerpt from The Anti-Alcohol Movement in Europe
"Awake, awake, 0 brothers,
A greater morning dawns."
- Song of the Vienna Student's Legion.
There are two striking things about the Continental anti-alcohol movement. First, that a movement of such revolutionary significance should come up so quickly and become so suddenly influential in the face of such a dead weight of tradition and prejudice; and secondly, that a development of such importance in Europe should have to wait so long for its popularisation in America. One has little right perhaps to expect much from the American press in view of its relations to the alcohol capital and, generally speaking, its unintelligence. But the antialcohol movement in Europe is university-bred and one would naturally look for some echo of it in American academic circles. That this has not come in any considerable degree is suggestive of the leisurely course which ideas take as they wend their way from the Continent to the English-speaking world. "It is dark," says the Japanese proverb, "at the foot of the candlestick."
The beginning of this movement is generally dated from the publication of Professor von Bunge's Die Alko-holfrage in 1886. Abstinence ideas, indeed, were well-rooted before that time in Scandinavia.
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