Note 196 — Chapter III
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
It is for this reason that the abuse of alcohol is greatest among unskilled laborers196 and that it decreases everywhere that the workmen begin to organize in unions and political parties, since these lead to the amelioration of conditions, material, intellectual, and moral. In other words, drinking diminishes wherever the proletariat is animated by an ideal. And it is also among those workmen who foresee the future of their class and know what there is to do, that the ranks of total abstainers are mainly recruited.197