Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-22
Facts for the People !

tOtil NdlChihtiO'io hitNhS ~ N"NtA No.
Governor Everett, Judge Cranch, Hon. Ben ]
anin F. Butler and others, it is estimated
that the use Of Intoxicating drinks has cost 4
this country in the last ten years, ttCelUe hun
dred millions Of dollars
That it has killed three hundred thousand of
our citizens!
That it has sent one hundred and fifty thou
sand victims to our poor houses
That it has made one thousand maniacs!
That it has made ,vo hundred thousand wild
ows!
That ii has made four hundred thousand Or
phans
That it has caused ten thousand .fve hundred
murders
That it has caused t,oo thousand suicides!
A select committee of the Legislature of
New York, in report made on the 9th of
March, 1850, state that the number of persons
made paupers in that State by ntemperance,
at the present time, is Sirty-nine thousand hco
hundred and sirty!
They say that the cost of paupersm in that
State in the year 1919, was SSH AL. OF this
they estimated s6zO, 143 for ntemper-
ance!
They say the money voluntarily squandered
in the cities of that State on intoxicating
liquors, in 1000 liquor shops, can not be less
annually than $25, $4,000; and as natural
consequence, they say there are at the pres
sent time one hundred thousand drunkards in
that State!
They say there were committed TO prison
in thrtynine counties of the State, in 1910
thtrty-Sir thousand one hundred and fourteen per.
sons OF Incorporate habits, or who were under
the Influence of intoxicating liquors when they
committed their offences and these consi
tute by far the largest portion of persons com
mtted for crime.
Committee of the last Legislature of the
State of Connecticut report that full three
toauthS of all the paupers in the State had
been made SO by inlemperance.
They say there has been 1900 commitment:
TO the Hartford county prison in ten years, ten
hundred and t,Centy of which had their Origin
in intemperance
They say that on the 18Th day of May 1649
there were 100 male convicts in the State
Prison; one hundred and fve of whom con
iessed 10 Incorporate habits before commit
ment, and eighty:fue of them were intoxicated
! when committing the crime for which they
were imprisoned On the Odd of April. 1850
there We're in the same prison 10 male cou-
vicis, one hundred and t,centy eight of whom
drank TO excess before imprisonment, and
ninety tlUo of them were intoxicated when
committing the crimes for which they were
punished.
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
stimulus of strong drinks. Six murders were
committed in the State The last year, and the
authors Of .fre of them have been found tc
have been urged to the fatal work under the
maddening influence of intoxicating liquors.
committee of the Legislature of Massa
chusetts appointed in 1913, TO investigate the
causes of insanity, report that of thirteen hun
dred idiots in that State, between eleven ant
ttcelUe hundred were the children of drunken
parentsl
A Committee of the Ohio Legislature, ap
pointed for similar purpose, report 1000 id
lots in that State, a very large majority o
which have either been Incorporate them
selves, or are the descendants OF incorporate
parents.-I'he Good Samaritan.