The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-26
JAMES RARIDEN.


E1fF3FS dEtdi'Hm'-- In nouctng YOUR pa
per Of last week, my eve fell upon the article
IN reply 70 .'Philom's" humbusserv against
the hluor law According 70 his figures there
is to be raised the amount Of $685.. 600 BY tax
alton. His figures show. however. that SS75.-
200, together with the profits sos SEQ. will
be returned To the STATE. leaving but Sle6.
600 according 10 his oara assumption. But
this assumption is evidently falsehood. All
the agencies with which | am acquainted.
furnish their own liquors. aud keep the profits
Tor remuneration So that the State is out ius,
nothing. However. we will suppose his fig
ures 10 be true, what them why. simply this:
To save the multiplication Of widows ana or
phans. crime and pauperism, death and desc
lalion, in our otherwise beautiful State. we
raise the ''snoranouS sum of si66, ooo'--
Now is not Il too bad 10 think on, that Indiana
should raise 'by taxation SI66. 600? Shame,
Shame! The bligh.ed hopes mind. souls and
whitening dcsolalIons of alcohol 10 be compared
with money 20 shame, 70 hide thy Grim
son blush!' Bat suppose that souls and
bodies Of men as Is the case IN portions OF our
country. were TO be valued pecunarily. and
reduced to the almighty dollar. Suppose there
werein Indiana bat ., 76o drunkards who loose
their time by this monster. land who but
knows this to be undcr the true estimate. and
suppose their time to be worth $500 year
each. we have then n clear loss Of S8e8, 900,
which might be saved by raising the aforesaid
Sl66,ooo-pretty fair speculation
But "taxes.'' That's TIE cant Phrase
Very well--"to the law and testimony The
Documentary Journals of Indiana for 1917,
state that crime cost the State $3.50, 0O0n'-
There were in the State Prison lo8 convicts,
being an average for the apprehension. deten-
ton. prosecution and conviction of each pris-
oner of 81 ,953 In 1851, the latest date
have before me, there were were 1872 convicts;
temperate 81. moderate Is, Incorporate 49,
Many. probably all, of the moderate" class,
were Incorporate in the extreme. One sent
from Randolph county, was SO drunk when
he committed the offence, that he .'felt up for
the ground" and yet he put his name down
moderate drinker.'' How exceedingly mod
estl Then take one half as incorporate, and
we have % TO be multiplied by 81. 953. which
gives the sung little sum of 1857, I88. by tara
tom There are at least 1000 paupers
in the States, (the census of 1880 gave SO | }
10 be supported at cost of $500 EACH making
$500, Goo one fourth by incompetence, gives
$780, 900! Fifteen per cent of the Insane is
occasioned by intemperance. The Hospital
cost $4,000; interest on same. S510o; inter
est by intemperance $765. The State Sentin
el gives tie cost Of maintaining each person
in the Hospital 1925 per annum. In the Hos
piial in 85l. there were 10 persons directly
by intemperance. at Sl25 each. it would
amount to 3 1915.
RECONCILIATION:
State of Ind. to Intemperance by taxation, DR..
To support of Insane persons, So,
- Paupers, $4,000
" Prosecution, &c, Of criminals. 189, 188
Total, exclusive of many conting's., S24O,62
This township has broughta cost of Sl60
against the county since last April, for pau
perism, and not one who receiucd relief, but
that 1ras a whisky drinking toreignert And
if this township was fair index to the
STATE. we would have in the item of pauper-
ism alone, the snug little sum of $50, 240.
Let tax payers deduct the Sl66. 600. and
then answer me, is it not good speculation
to keep the Law?
But | have already written too long an arti-
Gle, and may sometime bother you again.
Very respectfully
One OF The PEOPLE.
p. S-July 17.-Since the above was writ
ten, poor Irishman has gone to his long
home. Il was thought by some, that there
had been foul play bat the Coronor's Inques.
decided that Whisky murderea HIM This
(Waync) township will go for whisky-over
tie lJt.