Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-02-26


husband and father are often sqrandcrcd for drink.
while the utlnconale wife and helpless children are
lett to -iaryc. He, who, It may be, was once provi
mt and tender father Is transformed by achohO TO
demon. and vents his passion, madicned by fury,
his unolIendlns ana gmes!stIns innny
But the evils arising from the use of Intoxicating
drinks reach beyond the inebrlae and his wretched
fmily They flow out over society in the various
forms Of paupcristn, crime and enormous waste OF
Accordingt to the report of Mr.. Chipman who some
years since visited the poor houses and prisons in each
county ofthe state OF New York the number OF pau
pcgs whose pIupcrism was occasoncd
Not from ntemperancc was lbs
Doubtful, 1i02
In Albany the number received into the aims house
in 1888 was 633 Not from intempetancc |. Doubt
idi H. lncmpcrae 6l6
The poor IN the Baltimore aims house IN lSii, num-
bcrcl i!3, OF whom - only were temperate. The
cost OF their support to the ey was ?lS2J5.
The annual piupertaX Of Massachusetts. caused by
iutrmpeiauce. lew years since was S2Sl OUO.
There l. abundant evidence to show that from 81 TO
- OF tn, pnnpersm OF the country has resulted direct
ly or indirectly from tins source
Nor is it less prolific OF crime than OF pnupcrls1.--
81 200 murders committed annually in the United
Sates, 10 it is computed, are committed i'll conse-
Qucucc OF alcoholic influence.
Justice Cole OF the Police Court Albany, says, "ot
all cases that came before during the year, VI IN
100 originated in were directly caused by, lntcin-
perancr. More than 100 cases came under my cog
nIlamce in year.
{ Hastings, Esq. District Attorney of Livingston
Co. \. . s,iys 81 am free in expressing dccIded
opinion that at least g 10 olll the offences committed
in our county are fairly chargeuble to the use OF a.co-
| huUc drinks
| In the city New York. which by strange ncon.
sscucy u g-.1ton Is excepted from the operation OF
the license law OF the state, and where the traffic, I'M
ld.rt-a. sanction, is carried on to AN amazing extent.
t' results are truly appnI.ug, during SIX months OF
tue last year May 10 Oct lncusIvc tie records OF inc
iouo" Court show, that there were taken up IN the
streets OF ut city 1885 persons tor mtoXlcaton alone.
IanI IN addition II tlesi a2Eg persons were arrested
q rfI.r fIfHf
100 pei SOILS arrested in halt year in cor sequence OF
m-cmrcrarce! Daring the same time 1915 children
were p.cncdup as lost Such are the legitimate and
shocking Ie.ultS OF unrestricted license.
\ direct consequence OF the pauperism and crime
resulting from iHtempaance, - an enormous amount
loi0Nutul. Three luuTlls OF the pauper. and more.
ihln one aa %! the criminal tax OF tine state OF New
/ Y ri is caused by intoxicating drinks. The amount
o Comfy taxes, arising from this source in that State.
is hall milton OF dollars
Nor is this all the waste occasoncd by this
Il Is stated by the Committee OF the Worlds Temper
Iaucr Convention, IN recent address that the loss OF
productive labor uccasionCd by the drinking nsages OF
the iahorlng classes in Eng0ni, is estimated at not
Hess t.al l-Gl OF the whor amounting IN value to
many millions annually. The destruction OF property
by SEA and laud. IN ,pwlccks, fires, robberlcs Nc
resulting from the same cause, is almost incacuabie,
lamoWunI to millions more. Many millions OF quar-
t'rS oi gram, gwen by houniiW Providence Tor Inc
food man are now entirely destroyed as food, being
: tn. late Attorney General Of the United States B.
L -r. t-r rl- computcd that tn, loss to this
ton. from the use ~ intoxicating drinks IS loO nIIoIs
4 Tur Hon. T. Everett, lat. Minister to Great Britain
and n1N Pre- dent OF Harvard College, computes that
the U.s. otacooc hevrra yes has cost the United States
L directly n ten years, twelve hundred millions OF dol
e., 1r-; has burned OF oncrw DESTROYED hyc millions
dollars moro OF property has destroyed three hundred
- thousand lives, seat one hundred and fifty thousand
persons 10 our prisons, and one hundred thousand chi-
irru % the poor h1u-', has made thousand wld-
c os has caused fifteen hundred murders ana thou
sand euc.d and has b-qneaiIcd to the country one
million orphan cuilrrn.
De- i|,l ,.,l t',o,, ,,C,..
pruuc' chl.ts. especially in Massachusetts where H.
Z, cans's, except for useful purposes, have been withheld
J. N nearly every county Tor eight ten years, al
rra ly st>iuEy m1H,- in the dimuuton OF tie evils
d which Intrmp rance occasions
j. ol the pautnis received into the Mas-ach's rs Iu
matte lIusf Itu in years the number admitted du-
If ring r FIRST quart n OF that period who owed Il cir III
sWify 10 HicmpeTauce, was more than d0Wbe that OF
r tA2s' r',t'.tL dl,n- lt iastqaarcr bng :, to b.
~ In the poor Hou-t at Worcester, Mass, Tour years
20 Shi'' there w'r' i''pa1pers The number the last
: year reduced 10 eleven In the city OF Portland
40 NJ, the commitments to the Alms-house were dnin-
SHE'D an single year Ol, IN consequence the pro-
VI grc~- Oi temperance principles.
- From return from 20 County and l. State prisons.
t. from the commencement of the ,ompcra:lcr rrioua
ton to the close OF Ia, yaur ls constant dminut on
u % crime appears 10 have taken place, with great in
creast u population while prior to the first mention
al period t,E' vas constant and regular increase Of
Ic.n'. llls amnnu1n has been UNI, rnly nttrihut-
ed by men ~ ocil stations to the ten rerlncc rco.
Is uuuou
d Ii lar opil.ou ofDr Warren of Boston, The tempe
al rance movement has added oac-Srti to the moral
power and wealth ut .hc Commonwealth OF Na-sachu-
-i sets DE- W. also remarks that the accidents ~
~ winch persons were brought 10 the Massachusetts G.
u nrn. Hospital great poIjiouof which had happened
n wHe tl' sufferers wegr under the influence OF drink
W were yearly becoming less and that during the past
l. Sl~ comp iyuiIye.y small"
Ba, tn.rr are sI Obstacles to the complete success
:. OF i"' caa-eo Temperance. It hls still 10 contend
- "dh niue. Of apathy and indifference the plt o
~ many, VINO c.c pp.'sSily friendly to its progress
l"''' are many,N2m whom better things might he