Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-08-04
The Rum Spirit

Under the above expressive title our CO.
temporary Of the Rock Island Advertiser dis
courses as follows. s. long as the citizens
ofRock Island encourage such an unprin-
cipled man TO give tone to society as the
one who prssiaes over the Rspubltcan, an
iniivilu,l who welcomes to their CITY will
out-s,re,ched arms, men who 60 there with
the avowed intention Of sowing the seed OF
Drunkenness and crime broadcast in commit
nifty, go long must they expect such state
of society to exist as lie here chronicled by
the Adreriiser:--
Free Ram is doing its work. We are
informed tina. the Illinois side of the river
throughout this county, and especially in
the lower part of it. is fast becoming peo-
pied with the refuse inhabitants OF Iowa,
AMI that grorshops by the multitude are
looming IN their harFid fronts among them.
20 blast and DESTROY Philips Landing, op-
poetic Mnscatine, i said TO have become
suddenly populated into quite avilisge OF
dram and gambling shops. New ones are
also opening every dag in ali parts of the
country, and the trade in rum and ruin and
death opens brisk The statistics of drunk.
enness and It's consequences In Rock Is
land. also. nave Increased several hundred
ns- cent sinr. the Ist Of Iulv, when the H.
rsor law in Iowa went into operation
2 sIar W. give the number OF commitments
n the isil in the county. ss furnished Us nv
Denn,y Sheriff Beardslev. beginning with
the III Of Anrii and ending with the lst Of
h,rrst, 81 thai our resdsrs NAV compare
and see what !, IS probably goingto cost Us
n do with ~ liquor law on this side OF the
river:
f,ormifmsn,, TO Jail for tss month Of April
-r p, .,,,s, .,;..a.., crime. i
-, 3
For The month Of May.
sl,osher s,,eadsu, crimes
Far The month Of June.
an bTp osssr s.isnasn, crime.
For the month cfJuly.
An osher attendant crimes
To;I
Hare i. an increase RI near four hundre'
per cent in Jnly, committed for drunken
ness aiane--2s more. in tact, than wer'
committed for thar offence in all three 0
the months previous! Does this argn'
notiing1 Does II really signify tina: IL;
weil!" =. the additional police we have beer
compelled 10 employ at an enormous ex
-epse. cry aloud ia cur streets every night
In addition 10 these commitments, SONS
two or three deaths have occurred m tbs
city since the 1t ofJuiv. from the use o
Intoxicating liquors. "1'here are none So
blind as those who ,1iA nat ee."--none 80
sfuuia rs those who siH not learn. VII
the time neyer come when the MINORITY, a
least. shall discover inst rum is demon
which II viii not to do 10 let escape 'rorr
the closest c7nfaement-thsf his appropri
s.e orlson should be the nethermost he'll!
We speak strongly perhaps. Let il be so
I, - time Oar iail is scarcely emptied o
one mud srer who bears his solemn wit
ness seainst the damning draught on the
paliaws. almost in view oftha bar o. Eter-
nal. before Il i filled BY another, whose
hands also sought the life-blood of his fell
bowman while his brain was steeped in the
same aectfrsed fumes II the rum-sp,it.- -
II IL time 10 "crv aloud and snare not -
o that men would consider and be wise un-
u thrir ogn salvation, from this woe Of all
woes. the m PSI prevalent and iccars RI!