vernor General of the Province.

Whether it was his admiration for the American temperance movement which
influenced Dr. Alexyeeff's views on everything American, I cannot say.
But, assuredly, not many foreign visitors have pronounced upon our
country such a panegyric as is contained in the preface to his "Across
America." He writes:

Conscientious fulfillment of every duty, industry, energy, and
moral purity are the typical qualities of the genuine
American. It is difficult to form any idea of the wide
development of philanthropy, the significance of religion, and
the practical application to life of ethical principles, the
application of moral obligations in business, the upright,
God-fearing life of the Americans, unless one has lived among
them. They have neither prostitution, foundling hospitals, nor
hospitals for venereal diseases. A European is not accustomed
to see empty prisons and hospitals in densely settled
localities--to come upon cities where there is nothing for the
police, the Judges, and the doctors to do he finds startling.
They have attained the height where priests, pastors,
preachers, and teachers are rarely obliged to contend with
indifference....

After a trip to America it would be difficult to return an
atheist--you are more likely to come back in a religious frame
of mind.... Idleness and luxury are not among the
distinguishing characteristics of the descendants of the
Puritans.... In the light, transparent atmosphere of the
States, simplicity, the cheerful, alert spirit infects the
foreigner, makes him a more frank, trustful, optimistic
warrior for the truth, and causes him to forget what it means
to be downcast in spirit, or what spleen and hypochondria are.

Until he died, in Siberia, in Russia, everywhere, Dr. Alexyeeff worked
for temperance. He was enthusiastic about it when I saw him and his wife
in England, in 1907.

Mr. Tchelisheff having been aroused to interest, theoretically, by
America, via Dr. Alexyeeff, as is fairly proven, it was only natural
that he should proceed to make the personal observations on the
practical, social side of drunkenness which he mentions in his Times
interview. He noticed, during the great famine of 1891, that it was the
drunkards who had squandered their grain and pawned their possessions
to the keepers of the dramshops who robbed