Excerpt from The Breakdown of the Gothenburg System

There have been hitherto two classes of reporters on the Gothenburg System, - first, the theoretical who explain how admirably it must work because of the ingenuity of its mechanism, - secondly, the statistical who seek to prove by figures of declining consumption that it does work, all the while neglecting the historical and prohibitory factors to which these results are chiefly due.

What is now needed is a third kind of reporter who will show how little satisfactorily the System actually does work. He has but to live in any Scandinavian community, small or large, where the Company shop is planted and to snap from time to time his mental kodak. He will soon get material enough to disprove the fairest Gothenburg theory.

This little booklet is an assortment of such pictures which have been sent at intervals to American papers.

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