[10] Cf. Rowntree and Sherwell’s _The Temperance Problem and Social Reform_, especially pp. 560-587. [11] _Vide_ Appendix. [12] London: S.P.C.K., Northumberland Avenue, W.C. [13] The writer is aware that to provide adequate counter-attractions would entail a very heavy expenditure. It has been estimated that, to provide adequate counter-attractions to public-houses would require annually £1000 for every 10,000 of the population, a sum which cannot be raised by private subscription. A scheme of Constructive Temperance Reform has been before the country for some time, under which the public-house trade would be taken out of private hands, and the profits given to the National Exchequer to be used for certain specified purposes. The first charge throughout the country would, however, be the provision of adequate counter-attractions to the public-house. In so far as the profits of the public-house trade are probably not less than £20,000,000 per annum, and since, upon the estimate given above, £4,000,000 would furnish the sum required for counter-attractions, it will be seen that under this scheme there would be no difficulty as to funds. [14] 1900. [15] See conviction for Betting Coupon Competitions (E. Hulton and Co., Ltd.) in Manchester, November 1901. [16] The paper selected to show the value of sporting tips is the _Morning Advertiser_, an organ of the liquor trade which devotes much attention to sport. INDEX Advertising Act (1874), 211 Albert Club, case against, 143 Allen (Russell), _Manchester Evening News_, evidence before Lords’ Commission, 208 Allotments, a counter-attraction to public-houses, 184 Alverstone (Lord Chief-Justice), on betting and gambling, 215 Anti-gambling League, National, recommendations made by, 205 Anti-social desires, gambling induces, 13 Art Unions, 139 Ascot Heath, betting shed, 21 Athletic grounds, betting at, 197 Australian licensed bookmakers, 193 Automatic machines, gambling by, 137 Averages, law of, 103 Bain (J.), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210 Bank Act, 1867, restrains speculation in bank shares, 147 proposed extension of restriction to all stocks and shares, 159 Bank of England and National Debt, 46 Bankruptcy, betting a cause of, 90 Bath, Recorder of (Mr. H. C. Folkard), on effects of gambling, 216 Battenberg, Prince Louis of, on effects of gambling, 216 Bazaar raffles illegal, but not subjected to prosecution, 139 Beaconsfield (Lord), on the turf, 168 Bell, M.P. (Richard), on gambling, 217 Bennett (Curtis), on street betting, 214 Beresford (Lord Charles), on gambling, 38, 215 Beston, exposed by _Truth_, 225 Betting-house Act (1853), 24, 199 amendments suggested by Lords’ Commission, 196 amendments proposed to, 156 coupon gambling outside the meaning of the Act, 140 effect of, 191 new decision _re_, 140