New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-23

Cotton is Of course great friend Of Temperance, a.
!. al ri. tribe espeeiay the rumselers and their
victims Who ever heard Of any body that WASH ID
favor Of Temperance Bat there would seem 20 DC
| several kinds Of Temperance, and this Is the knd
p,trcnized by Cotton
The attempt 20 represent crime as amos
suig from the Bse Of Intoxicating drnks' : L.. 49,
nv isfi-tic tnd the history VI the human family
The secs Of evil implanted deep IN our o-georfNS IA
,ure and the good Book tel rs that We are 10
Sin and ,h@PeD IN Isfnty h.o5 n Can s,.ed
viii brothers blood. Thoagh heoiis 81 TN 2e9Snc7
eoutrbu;e IN An dsgree 70 oeh inoiVau az h+
tousl prosperity aid happiness land We h2P- AFa!s %
commend h, m both by precspt and example, yet We
examine into the condieD OF those countries NhrtS DA
sb.iipeBce prsctced eher from the force Of reSoas
conviction or general poverty. usually discoFe Al h-
crimes and sfrocifies without the yitge ami ineus@c
of tl0se nation. 10 Viii 50 private nights are -1A
Compare Turkey, ArAbS and Egy pt sfh EHtiAhl IIus
IA sno the Cufed S;se and thankful tnas ~ are
bls,s.d with the Bible which each- 20 use 18th n aus
The gifs II Providence, instead Of the Moran Shcn con
M nos tois L,nc under p, IN Of eternal punishment
We are roLeu, g,lztofs AID CafstAnS, N0t ~ Dc
wire above What . written
What are the private rights which Mr. Smith
here informs US legazed," bis syn'sx ahords no
means Of determining. If it be the right 70 tPple
that he il aiming a. should infer that ne had been
recently enjoying thar private right rather ioeray
when be constructed this sentence And II he mesos
10 nsnusts Is be d. that those Who practice
Total Abstinence are morally intellectually Inferior
to tbo.e who imbbe Alcoholic pOtatioDs then he nsn-
mates what is most VIGOROUSLY untrue Hos are
Twelve Millions of Christians held IN subsection in Ed
ropesu Turkey. by Three or -Four Millions Of aussul-
men Of Asistic origin cOnsttutonally enervated and
morally debased by Polygamyl The Turks drink
rarely the Greeks hsbituay and therein, We cannot
doubt. is one main reason OF the subugaon AMI deg
radiation of the Christians Of the Eat. Mr. smith sdg
rests ceDparisons We should ike to see the whole
adult population Of Connection drawn up in two lines
,ho,e who practice Total Abstinence fronting the de7o
tees of Temperance after the order Of Cotton, aud
him required TO walk between and critically the
two armies If the contrast did not redden his "sa2e
it must BE- because its present hue is rubcund beyond
paraIel-a point on which We have no Information
We DO not purpose to follow this eminent theoOgsn
INTO the religious arena which be invites us All
that need be said on that subject may be very briefly
summed up thus: No ever found in the Bible any
Indictment 10 liquor drinking selling until be had
fret found il somewhere else, and no man ever felt i'm
PEELED by the Bible TO favsr the Liquor Traffic mo-
ment longer than be was inclined that way by cORsid-
erstons outside Of the Bible Whenever Mr.. Smith
shall e1 amiue the subject through glasses which cover
Lseyes snly not his mouth, he will that the Bible.
fairly Construed is on the side Of the Name Law.
The completely Of Rum with Pauperism threatens
70 staaeer our model legislator but only fvr moment.
See how be tosses aside ith few brazen assertions
great majority Of the pauPerism IN our large cities
and lows t. from f0regu lands E whh our laws ht1its
and institution, are Dot responsible The average exp
OF pauperism tncuong for,gu IN the United States Is
be $40 per year for every LOO nhtOtnts, oT
$4,000 ooOfor our entre population OF -oeo00'0 nl' Is
nn o1 The poHperis1l Of country caused By iqfu
Teronoe in drinking fair stateint Mt from any asholse
/ will prove"
Surely cause which derives support from such
assertions as the above must be near its last gasp
Only Two Millions per anIum for the total expenses Of
Paupeism in this Country and scarcely tenth of that
or 2OOOOO-required to support the liquor made pau
pers Of the whole country There is lot a man who
can read who does not knOp these statements 10 be
enormously untrue-that the total expense of PauPer
i'm amazingly moderated, lille the proportions OF t
arising from Intemperanee and otberwe are Just about
reversed Nnetnths Of oil the Psuperism IN the land
had Acoho at It's basis though the actual paupers may
be the innocent children, widoss or other relatives
of tippers sometimes the victims of their insane fury
And while it is that many paupers are OF foreign
birth ust as true that nearly all these have been
bard drinkers or members Of the families OF drinkers
We are confident there are not hundred pauPer in
totally abstaned from intoxicating Liquors, matter
whether in England, Prussia and the United States,
or in Turkey, Arabia and Egypt" On this point We
ubo stand for the Maine Law have given column a'er
coun Of Statistics showing just what effect the pass
age and enforcement of the Maine Law has had Pau
perism in Portland, Bangor Lowell and other places
Why do no. our antagonists impugn these or match
them if they do not wish 10 be considered thoroughly
btattDi
Smiths enthusiasm is kindled by the contemplation
Of his own Hmalayan assertions and he crowns the
pyrin.id as follows:
"AineL enfe.tes Of all the MURDERS arsons forgeries
burglaes ard swiudlIg 10 community committed by
cool calculating knsves in their sober senses and neces
saiy temperate absfemOus for the sake OF in
/ their nefaf0us and diabolical schemes"
The men who can swallow such assertions as these
must be beyond the reach Of treatment Not even
Aromatic schedam Schnapps" nor Jersey Lightning
could save them They given 10 believe lie
and, they uW believe il any how. But whoever reads
the journals Of the day whoever has anything Of
Crime its deyotees and their haunts must know that
LIQUOR is as essential TO Crime dark lantern s - the
burglar or penmanshp the forger Every week brings
three or four murders and Rum, Rum-jealousy in
famed by LiquOr-quArreliDg under the influence OF
Iiouor-is almost uniformly the Indictment. Even
where the nature and hazards Of the crime absolutely
reouire the sobrety of the criminal during the commits
sion Of his vainy he is almost uniformly tppler during
his leisure hours, whom Alcoholic dissipation has har.
deped. impoverished driven from society aud rendered
desperae For the truth Of this appeal every expe
rienced policeman, prosecutor and jailer.