The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-11

tldL IN the whole Uniteu SldIeS, AT IcdsL w.
600. which is only one IN hoo hundred OF the
p0pula ion. are either tenants OF our prisons.
or live by vice and crime. The expense OF
watching the movements of this army OF
criminals, of seizing and trying them. of main
tanning them in prison; and the losses when
the community sustain by their thetts ,burgla-
ries, arsons, frauds. murders, &c.a unknown,
hu' must BE- immense: and three fOurths of
the whole must he set down to the score of
intempprance.
5. The relatives Contemporaries persons suf-
fer misery and shame on account Of their con-
duct.
The number of drunkards in the U. States,
i. e. Of those who are frequently int 'mperate
and either habitlaIIy or occasionally drunk,
has been variously estimated from 100000 to
10000 1t seems to be generally admitted.
that the hahituaI drunkards are at least. one
in every hundred of the popu!ation.Or l2O, 900
in all. If we take into view only the habituaI
drunkards, and consider that each of them on
an average has eight relatives as father,moth
er. wife, child, sister, or brother, we shall per-
crive that intemperance dooms nearly One
Million persons to the disgrace and suffering
necessarily conne cted with "A relationship so
intimate.
9. OF oil persons in the U. S. who die after
arriving at an adult age, one out Of three is IN
, temperate.
In New Haven, Conn. the number Of per-
sons over twenty years of age, who died in
1926, was "a and IF this number more than
one third, according to published statement
of the Medical Association of that city, were
Incorporate: land on referring further back
they say, we find similar proportion for the
two years preceding.' Ifthis prnportinn can
be found in New Haven, city certainly dis
tinguished for morality as any in the U. States
we have no reason to believe that it is less in
the country al large. The whole number of
persons in the United States ofadult age is a
bout 6,O00,00O; of this number, if nothing is
done to check the progress of intemperance
Two Millions will probably die Incorporate.
7. The number Of persons in the u Stats.
a0ho die Of intemPeronce ery year Is at least so,
600.
In Portsmouth, N. Fl. which had at the last
, census 1877 inhabitants. 2l persons, or three
for every thousand, died of excess in drinking
according to the bill Immortality ofls26. At
this rate, the number in the whole United
StatesSv0uld b. $4,000 per annu,n. A dis
tlngulshed physician of Philadelphia, after
commenting on the bill of mortality Of that ci
Ity for the year 1925, estimates the number of
deaths by lntemprrancs at 336 (which is near
ly three in every Thousand of the population
The estimate of go. 600 lives annually destroy
! ed by ntemperance, he fears if the truth We're
known. would be found too small. In New
Haven, Conn. which had 1T the last census g.
927 inhabitants, the number of persons whose
deaths were caused or FASTENED, directly or
indirectly. by intrmprrance in 1926, accord
ing to the statement nt the Medical AsSOcIa
| ton, was.as we have already intimated, 50 for
every thousand. AT this rate. the number Ia
the United States would be- $4,000 per annum
and this statement is founded On the priUate
record oi the physicians, and is therefore wor
thy of entire confidence, and might with more
proprttybe adopted as the basis OF calculation
! for the whole country than any statements or
| estimates derived from bills of mortality.
8. BY the premature death OF these thirty
thousand the country loses the profits Of their IN
Dor for The Periot oaich WDuld haze been added
! to their iUes !ftley hld remained temperate.
II we oppose this period to be on an aver
ag" zen years We cannot estimate the profits
less han SO,O0O.OOO dollars for let it be re-
membered with Il trfIng excrption,the whole
80, 600 would br in the prime of life, there be
ing few deaths by intrmperance among those
who are under twenty Or over sixty years of
age. We are within bounds 10 saying that a
! temperate person, in the prime of lite,earns on
an average one hundred dollars per year more
than is ut cessary for his lndi, ldua support
How else, Indred. could men support their ia
miles !-and YET at thus low rate, each ofthese
80, 900 persons, If he had been temperate, land
had lived ten years longer, would besides sup
porting himself have earned $1,000, which
would have been -xprlded in Increasing the
! comforts OF his children, or others depending
on him. By in,emperance.( all this amounting
for the 10000, to $50, OOO, OOO,) is lost.
9. In addition to the losses above enumer-
ated, there are many others, which, although
amounting 10 an immense sum in the aggre-
gate, do not admit of estimate; such are the
loss OF vessels and cargues BY the intemperance
Of seamen !; the loss of lives and property by
fires, ccidents, and casualties Ut various kinds.
originating in the careessness d. the Intempe-
rate the mischiefs arising from the mIsman-
agelnent of business by Incorporate agents,
&c.
| For the purpose of exhibiting more clearly
the cost of iutemperance. we sutj"in bill, in
hich the above items are introduced III their
order.
The People of the United States to Intemperance
l. To Sc. OOO, 900 gallons of
| ..,.. -. ef,s ctc nor gallon &98. OOO. 600