The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915

part in this incident was a drinking man, while their fellow villagers,

who were abstemious, had sufficient provisions in their own homes. Thus it was that I observed the industrial effects of vodka drinking.

"At Samara I decided to do more than passively disapprove of vodka. At this time I was an Alderman, and many of the tenants living in my houses were workingmen. One ...