Mr. John Graham Brooks, a member of the Committee of Fifty, lectured in the parlor of the Brooks House last night on the Liquor Problem. The agencies, said Mr. Brooks, which are working most powerfully and effectively for temperance in this country today are not the laws, not the temperance societies, but the railroads and great industries, by putting a premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results in Norway far ahead of any other systems elsewhere, has now been started in England by private companies with great success and will probably be the ultimate solution of the problem.