The inaccuracy of the main exhibits against Pro-
hibition offered by Mr. Shirk in behalf of the gen-
tlemen of the Moderation League, his failure to ap-
ply the ordinary statistical correctors to his crude
figures for arrests for drunkenness in 350 American
cities and towns, and my acceptance of these tables
for the sake of argument, with all their inaccuracies
--but subjected, in the end, to merely a single obvi-
ous corrector, namely, that for increased population
during the period considered--furnished, in the last
chapter, instances of exaggeration by the Modera-
tion League as to the non-enforcement of Prohibi-
tion in the country as a whole.

In fact, Mr. Shirk's own inferences from the rec-
ord of arrests were shown actually to reverse his
case and to record a measure of enforcement that
should be heartening to these eminent gentlemen
who are devoted to "the restoration of temperance."
Further, as was to be expected, this demonstration
harmonizes with the findings of the first chapter,
as to the exemplary reduction of convictions for

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