Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-05-29

cost Of prosecuting criminals and per-
sons guilty Of misdemeanors in the U.
States, is at least s millions of dollars.
|, is Enthusiastically true that not less
than threo-lon;ths Of all crimes aud
misdemcanurs are the consequences Of
the use Of spirituou6 liquors. So that
we may add to the annual loss Of nj
,ionul capital and the law,lhree-fourths
of S millions, or G millions Of dollars.
This sum would be g,batly augment
ed, if the expenditures made in curing
diseases produced by drinking these
liquors could be ascertained.
But what of the pauperism Of the
conmtryl Extensive investigation and
well authenticated facts hare demon
stralcd beyond controversy that quite
three lourths of the panperism, and
consequently three-fourhs of the cost
of paupcrism, in the U. States, are
directly the results of the use of spir.
i,uous liquors. Allow me, in this con-
ncciion, to introduce few facts by
way of specimens.
In Baltimore county. Maryland, Of
1884 paupers admitted TO the aims
house in one year, 1863 wero reduced
to poverty and brought there through
Incorporate drinking.
In Washington county, New York,
the superintendent of the poor.housc
reported that of 1929 paupcrs sent
there, 200 were the victims Of their
own intcmperance or of tina, of others.
The superintendent Of the Albany
almshouse, New York, stated that in
a year he had received G34 paupcrs.
OF these l was not Incorporate; II
doubtful incorporate GIG.
The superintendent ofthc Phiadcl.
phia almshouse reports that the cx.
pensc Of supporting paupers there for
one year had been S13O,000;" and
that 90 per cent Of the amount was oc-
casionod by intemperance."
A superintendent of the almshousc
at Boston for 8 years, MIR. Stone, sta.
ted: al AIN of opinion that seven.
eighths of the pauperism in this house
is to be attributed to intemperance."
S. Chipman, Esq. some years since
visited all the almshouscs and iails in
the State of New York. He sums up
the result as follows al have shcwn
beyond the power of contradiction
that more than three-fourths ofthe or
binary fax is absorbed in the support
of the poor, and the administration Of
criminal i,islice-lhat more than three
four,hs Of the pauperism are occa'
stoned by intcmperance, and more
than five-six,hs of those committed on
criminal charges were incorporate"
Judge Cranch, of the District Of
Columbia, so long ago as 1882 or 1888
made careful and maturcly consid-
cred estimate, based on facts which
he ascertained in the city Of Washing
ton, and on 33 other average estimates
made at different places. After'exam-
lining the facts in detail, the Judge
,aso,hor a NM, sn -, , ,haco.t nr,bs com.
sumption of ardent spirits in the u
a!.eu :. ,,, ane oa.t; >,
lst 72,oooooo gals afden M sp pna sa :.
z1;,oo PA SSsS s sias5T Of s75, sze'200'009
''' ono drnnknrds lost.
Mt Accents 100000
si. loyeurs labor of 81
50o'mstn killed by
ardent spirits, S,75o,Oo0
LII. 2 ofthc COS, of crime
in the u. S.utes,. ...6, $4,000
9th. . of the cost of pau
pcrism in the u. s.. .2,s5o,CdO
Sin: Q of the amount of
private charities, ...2,s50,0O0
7th. Z Of | years labor Of
120oprissonefs lost, 100000
Ill., .,,,,a, loo. - ,he
Inc annual loss 70 O. tle
eountr! ey tue use VI a. col ,o5 nm
dent sp'rl's' ~
Do not the plalnest principles OF
political economy iofT Mi .ne .rIiic IN
I'spirituoHs liquors ~has ih.elllseli.