Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-16
Temperance Itcnss.

WHAT KUN DOES IN THE STATE OF
New YoRK,-The annual cost Of pau
perism in this State is more than $780,.
600 Of this sum upwards Of 5000, 900
are set down TO the account of intern.
perance. Our average number Of pau
pers is over 10000. More than three
fourhs of all the crime committed in
the s .ate. can be traced directly to in
temperance. More than nine-ienths of
oil the murders in the State. are com.
mitted under the influence OF intoyica-
lion. $4,000 souls die every year in the
State by intemperance. Nearly all the
business Of Grand Juriss, Sheriffs, Con-
stables, and almost the entire Police
system in all the cities. is ehargeable to
intemperance. Of $50, 646 persons COM
mitted in six and a-half years, in the
City of New York, 140, 1888 were offences
resulting almost entirely from the use
of liquor in dram shops. In this es,i.
mate ofthe appalling evils resulting from
the sale of intoxicating liquors, we leave
enti rely out Of the account the incalcu
liable amount Of poverty. and wratched.
1865 ohu ooiAous "hiSh liHuOi tul~
fic introduces into the family Of the
drunkard- an aggregate TOO terrific to
contemplate.-Maine Law Laconics.
THE papers unfriendly to the Maine
Law have exultingly copied the states
ments of John Neal and the Rev. Mr..
O'Donnel, Catholic priest Of Portland,
in relation TO the inefficiency of the
Maine law. Mr.. Neal said, "In this
city-Portland-and neighborhood, and
probably throughout the whole State,
ton, there is more intemperance than
there has been at amy other time for
t,cenfy years." The Rev. Mr.. O'Don-
nell had made similar statements, and
the rum papers all over the land have
given currency to them, The course of
these gentlemen brough: out counter
statement. A paper, declaring the allie
cations of Neal and O'Donnell wholly
and entirely false, has been signed by
the mayor, by every clergy pit
O'DoH nell.-in Portland, even by Meals
pastor, and by more than four hundred
leading merchants of the city. We do
not envy the notoriety of those heroes
of the rum interest. We shall see
whether the papers who paraded their
charges before the public will publish
| the refutation.
CAUSES OF CRIME.-Of 240 convicts
confined in the Tennessee Penitentiary
SO were temperate before senten ced, and
202 incorporate; aud 1877 were drunk
when they Committed crime. There
are 43 whose fathers We're temperate,
1877 whose fathers were incorporate, oil
| whom 70 were common drunkards. -
There are three who have had classica
education. common English educa-
ton, l05 who can read and write, 90
who can read only, and 63 who can
neither read nor write. These statistics
show clearly that intemperance and the
| want of education are the two most
fruitful sources of crime.
In Tennessee over thirty counties
have memorialized the Legislature, ask
ing for the adoption Of resolution sub
hitting the question as to the enactme n
of prohibitory liquor law 10 the PEG
pie. The memorials were all drawn uI
in the same language and numerously
signed, showing general concert o
action upon the subject.
SOME liquor dealers say. eff don
sell. somebody else will" II such rea
soning justifies liquor selling. so it ma,
thissing and every other abomination