The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1873-08-22
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When tho wrctchcd Chicago mur.
icrc George Driver was about swing
Ing oa into eternity from tic gallo@s,
i, Is said that he gave push to tic
rope which langlcd beside him, anil
said Il b,~,andcr THAT rope means
bottle uf rum !" There il no doubt
that tho fatal Moose which slipped over
Fosters neck lately In Now lcrk
meant precisely the same thing, Thu
Foster whom nr, Tying knew In the
Sunlay-sclool was not tho malicious
lad, likely to grow up into wantcn
murderer; he was not naturally brutal.
The bottle made him n brute ON thc
night IT his frightful crime. Strip
away MI the volumes u argument, A.
lcal and apology that have grown out
of the famous Foster ease, anl yon will
lind that the rope which ended tho Gus,
'.mcans hottlc of rum, =
Tia, i what four-is,hs of all thc
murders mean. Even IL MT commit.
,rl under tho icrurions craze II drnn.
krnncss tho murderer was ,ct -,ccl,d
t. his lrseliSl purpose d, the iniluone,
of strung drink. Booth never woull
have put ,hut ristu! ball in,o the hrail
III uu. l.iu,uln IL he had not dilrnu
hi- nerve. Il, that Inst 'l,ae N brandy
| ID n.t believe that one avlibvrat,
humiei,lc uut II twenty II r,rr commit
tel Without previous ,lso 1T til, CON
srins.killing DRAM AMI IL tho hang
mans rops ''mcnns bottle No doc
many role u tho suicide Ncarl,
all the striped Jackets IN uur rcn,tcnti
aries mean the same thing, Esamin,
tho official reports cf our prisons am
alns-honse. and YOU will fnd that run
furnishes nlurr customers than MI
other sources Ut rrlmu~ and panprrisl,
combined. The hrolhel, tro. Il but
too,el upon the bottle, Every hous'
II iaiams i a drinking house. costl.
wine, arc both tho bait. thu slimulant
ani tlie epia,c u conscience In all III,
fashionable resorts u prostitution, =
The likes of us, = said n poor stree
prostitute of London. .eeu.l nesc
| live n ne ,lu without the yin, : VIII,
shall attempt to compute the amount .
crime cngenlorcd BY tho hot,lc, vhc,
W. consider that during tie year Isl
this country either malc or impurtc,
three hundred aud twenty-five milllpl
gallons Ut alcaholie drinks. Ii oil thu
liquor were loaded on wagons--a
twenty barrels on wago,--tao horri'
procession would reach from Now Norl
% San Francisco. At Il fair cstima.
uf results. about ono wapnn In ever
twenty would contain The corpse Of
legitimate victim VI this siupondou
au,oan. u poison Now tho Christia
nation which loads up such proce'
sion II liquar-casks as tl,at mus. cSrec
to pay tho toll, This IL In tile limo /.
Gods inevitable retrihu,ipns Ii on
nation manufactures and imports 3-o,
Oon. .uoo gallons u drink, then 80 mus
ho prepared 10 rcaa the ,lnlcniablc iau
that tho pccuniary cost !
inlcmperanec (slying nothing of Il
moral was.e aud hayoe) will foot u
each year a round billion of dollars
This y the tax w pay fur tho bottle.
hut 10 return tu .the rope VIII
hung Driyeri Who hung Foster
Win sent tho two young drunken car
thieves to prison tor liteen years In
week in Now York I Tho ready nj
1wcr II Society" The commonwealth
hung tho murlcrcrs and locked ~ III
thieves In seli-dcfcncc. Thnsc gallnM
were erected and that prism built
punish crime aud to protect hnma
life and property Society has hem
rope and ccll ior drunken murderer
and thieves. aud yet society license
the establishments which manuiactu,
the thieves aud tho mur,leiers. NJ
Works. law permits and protects II
trallc which furnished to Foster h
mad,lcning glass, New iork's spci
customs encouraged and tempted ~
Tor to become lrinkrr Il very larl
proportion Of New iorks chris.iu
ci.i4cns -. tho example of using u
social glass, even though most of the
,nay bc ablc 10 keep within modcr