New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-12

tefrce de-T5d ms1 He s-IiHca ~ sco5c1 e'f-'
Suffice I. tia. tsect5 eigt. 81 these forty-tFo
homieiess we're committed under tse Street. and
p.psb!e Inspiration e Alcoholic madness. The
per.etratyr, wars oittsr tiuck. or frebzie1 b. 5
lopg 1etaacb, or fighting in greg.hoPs Offer abo1t
psymsLt for the Equo. Trey bad just swallowed.
In ore case, bsr-tecder, berg involved in quar-
rel With customer. chased, pistol in hard, that
customer into TIE crowded s.reet, scd frei, ni.s
ing hi. intended victim, bat shooting IN estimate
and widel5. known citizen. VITO, With bis wife, was
OF bis v.y TO church. that being Surdsy evening
Ia tie fourteen css.s where tie COroners inquei.
did not trace the crime directly and palP,bly 70
the run cssk. Jealousy" wss three times assigned
Is tie csu.e-and We need hardly remark that
jealousy seldom masifests Itself IN murder under
the inspirssion Of cold water. Two or three OF the
remaining cases were accidents. or jus!.6.sle; ia
seyers no clue to the perpetrstor, no explanation
of TIE circumstances. was ELECTED. /. is certsay
within the truth 70 assume thst IDtoxicatlng
Liquors are the impsiing GAUGE of three fourtas Of
the murders perpetrsted in this City snd else.
wtere-tbat rot fewer than twenty-five human
beings are each year butchered under the Influence
Of Lquo, in Ills City alone, while throughout the
cour.ry, tie number can hardly fall below FIVE
hundred.
AID tits, thorsh ore Of the most appalling, Is by
10 mesrs the only, and is fax from being the most
usual Of tie malsp results Of the manufacture, sae
and cor,uu, ptios Of Alcoholic Liquors. The thieves,
burglars snd other criminals who infsss our CITY
are rssrly all liquor drirken-msny Of them druuk-
ards. They gather un0tssIve1 in the low grcg-
geres 70 concoct robberie., aud again, after
their crimes h.ve been committed, TO divide
the spci'. ard make merry over their sue
cea. Over eiaht thousand public paupsrs are
nearly al graduates Of tLese sennares OF vice, Oh
the unfortunate widows AID children Of those who
were such. II the Liquor Trsfic could be ami
hiated to norTow, moIe tasn Oce Million Dollars
Der aprum Of the sums now paid for the detection
and conviction Of criminals and the support Of pau
per, nigh. be left il the pockets from which taxa
tion now wIeaches it. We might dispense with ,
large portion of our Police, and with at least one
Of our Criminal judges il we could only be meas.
urably rid Of Inte4iostng Liquors. II they could
nc. be obtained at My price, and al public provi
sion FOR the relief OF tie testitute were utterly
sbo!isheo there wooH be far lees suffering from
want and des.itution than ynssre now H. Nay; free
US utterly and rrevocaby from the cc,'e OF lntoki
eating Drinks AID We will gladly Consent 70 I'VE
without. Police, snd without the protecting arm
of the LAW assured that there will be fewer crimes
snd ou.rsges committed than there now are.
We beg our Legislature row in session to give
some heed to these facts ard considerations. We
spTea to it for the protection Of the innocent from
robbery, outrage snd murder. We know that
liquor might be eaeciually placed under the ban
of Law if our lsw makers rishd to DO it-that if
there were viii, tina. way would surely be
found. Chosen men in Albany we 90 not ask you
to pass Proiibito any other particular sort of
act; but we do ash you TO pass some act that viii
render il certainly asp,cftGJIe to embark or perez
we're in the Manufacture of drlnkards. Is not this
your plsin duty