Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-06
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
Facts for the People.

From calculations made by such men as Gov
ernor Everett, Judge Cranch, Hon. Benjamin
F. Butler and others, it is estimated that the use
of intoxicating drinks has cost this country in
the last ten years, tpelUe hundred millions Of dol
IdrSl
That it has killed three hundred thousand of
our citizens!
That it has sent one Hundred and fifty thousand
victims to our poor houses!
That it has made one thousand maniacs.
That it has made tho hundred thousand wild
ows!
That it has made four hundred thousand or
phans!
That it has caused ten thousand five hundred
murders!
That it has caused t,co thousand suicides!
select committee of the Legislature OF New
York, in a report made on the 9th OF March, 1850
state that the number of persons made paupers
in that State by intemperance, at the present time
is Sirty-n71e thousand too hundred and sirLVl
They say that the cost of pauperism in that
State in the year l849, was S8l7,44l. OF this
they estimated S670,l43 for intempeiance!
They say the money voluntarily squandered
in the cities of that Safe on Intoxicating liquors,
in 1000 liquor shops. can not be less annually
than 25,550,000; and as natural consequence,
they say there are at the present time one hu,i-
dred thousand drunkafds in that State,
They say there were committed to prison in
thirty-nine counties of the State, in 1910, thirty
sic thousand one hundred and fourteen persons
of Incorporate habits, or who were under che in
fiuence of intoxicating liquors when they conf
mtted their offences; and these constitute by far
the largest portion of persons committed for
crime. F
A Committee of the last legislature of the
State of Connecticut report that full tree- ourths
of all the paupers in the State had been made so
by intemperance.
They say there has been 1900 commitments
to the Hartford county prison in ten years, ten
hundred and t,osnty of which had their origin in
intemperance!
They say that on the 9Th day Of May, 1s49,
there were ! 80 male convicts in the State Pris-
on; one hundred and fue of whom confessed to
Incorporate habits before commitment, and eight
y-fpe of them were intoxicated when commit
ting the crime for which they were imprisoned.
On the 23d of April, 1850, there were in the
same prison ITO male convicts, one hundred and
tUenty-eight of whom drank to excess before inn
prisonmeut, and niaety-tioo of them were intoxi-
Gated when committing the crimes for which
they were punished. 1
They say that nearly all the murders which
have been committed in the State during the last
twenty years, have either had their origin in
grog shop or their authors have been prompted
to their deeds of violence under the stimulous
of strong drinks. Six murders were committed
in the State the last year, and the authors of five
of them have been found to have been urged to
the fatal work under the maddening influence
ofintoxicating liquors.
A committee ofthe Legislature of Massachii-
sets appointed in 1913, to investigate the eau
SEES of insanity report that Of thirteen hundred
idiots in that State, between ezeuen and t,oelue
hundred were the children of drunken parents
a COMMITTEES af tho Ohio I .e,ialatnra annaint
ed for similar purpose, report 1000 idiots in
that State, very large majority of which have
either been Incorporate themselves, or are the
descendants of Incorporate paronts.-The Good
Samaritan.