The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-28

The Temperance Rcform-Thc Num-
ber, Consumption, and Profits Of
Drinking Houses in Cincinnati.
In some recent remarks on the sub
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ahl kghtsSf Aeirs 1t theemp-
|ti0ns Of their heartx, and, for8that
reason. can never totally prevent in
temperance. But itnssumes- to fand
can, in a large measure) regulate the
outxSrd conduct That is all It can
take hold of; but that is very effec-
tive means OF suppressing intemper-
oI Soal Eity AIdei%gn feaenay ez.
.pressed = very extra0rdiaarydo
that he would vote to license the
houses OF i'll fame without any regard
to morality. Now I cam Tell that per-
som something which perhaps he has
not considered. : Morals are q part Of
the law. One of the fundamental
principles of the common law of Eng
land and america is that nothing is to
be permitted which is 'tcontra bonos
mores contrary to sound morality.
Hence if lie succeeds in licensing
prostitution there is no sound lawyer,
much more an honest Judge, who will
not pronounce that ordinance void.
Much milder violations Of the moral
law have been pronounced by the
courts of England void absolutely on
that very ground. Lawyers familiar
with the decisions of the courts will
reeollcct some striking examples of
this. A law to license d house of i'll
fame is simply! q law to LICENSE
CRIME; that is,Eto contradict the law
itself, and stultify Ealike' morals, stat
utes, and government. twill be pro-
gress backward. But this is not my
subject. Law, we have said, can not
make men xirtu0us, but 1T can make
them decent and ofderly;I aud to that
We now come. The great object OF
civil law is to secure order, peace, mud
security No man in his senses will
say that this can bc,odone without
morals. But the Flaw does another
thing 1T regards the economy of So
cietysa'It regulates thousand things
inregard to the economy of property
and business, as we'll as the morals of
societyni It does say, and has "a right
to say, in q hundred different ways,
ilHYou shall not destroy property; you
shall not pursue a business injurious
to- your neighbours you: shallsnot make
road unless you make ltsina certain
way In one word, our law recbg-
nizes from the first. stepjto the last
that the y morals. the good order, the
| Inonnav <hok al a,rr&, a., ADJ nnI
the econonytof society are under its
protection; and that the law exerts to
do good, and not to do evil. Now,
just keep this principle IN view while
We look into the statistics of the retail
liquor shops, and their.efect upon the.
tcityof Cincinnatia o1a sIsad baE
l..One Eof the religious papers of
this city Stated that there were four
teen hundred drinking shopslin Gin
cinnati, and went lon to, argue from
1 that ia ctl u Now. let,us lookat the sta
tistiosdw More ntenI years ago the
commissioner of Statistics Mrotei to
| the Mayor of Cincinnati to ascertain
| how many grog shops there " ere in
this city,. The, Mayor set the, police
at work, and had them enumerated.
The return madestt theTGonlmis-
sioner was nearly is noteXactly, 2, 500.
That was ten years ago, and We shall
not be nverg the mark when We say
that there are 1900 shops where liquor
can be had a retailIin Cincinnati. 81 In
d this LIDO notiinclude' the drug stores,
whicllikeep both Iobium, andispirits as
a partsof their Ibhsiness.u Three thou
sand dram shops require ION an aver
ages3 600 families. which, at five to a
family, gives l5,0 coo people who derive
their living from this source. 1t is
4 plain II l,erctore, that the re tail Of Ii
Iquor In Cincinnatflis in itself q large
jtbusiness, and that this u 600 must
/ live on the profits nfb that business.
As the competition is very great. these
iprOntos very llargeos "A fthougn
! hundreds of men may frequent some
of the most popular saloons, it is not
probable that, there is an.nyerage OF
more, than six regular customers to
each dralnshop. OF course there are
thousands of casual customers las.
Stunning six to- each. there are $1,000
men, and their proportion of families,
who support, in tho MAN. J, 0W other
men and their families byliquor drink
ing. Altogether, about opethird the
j ,populationi( independent Of the manu-
tacturers) are regularly engaged in the
retail of quoranH0W the ID, 900 man.
4 ID ga to hyeIoni it arises from the great
d profits made. 81 To- determine what
they are, let us turn to the rep0rts oil
the Chamber Of Commerce. sa1 That
body makes annual reportssyery accu-
/ rate. ihdeed, which will enable us to
4 ascertain the consumption of liquors
bin Oincinmiti. lENeryhody knows that
1.-the manufacture of whisky and beer
Emakesdlp large branchlof trade and
business in the dity land it will be both
curious and useful to loo /, at the facts
of manufacture, expectation. and con-
! sumptiOn.flgt Ieyvigsyr .da4sS kl4l
dnii2 Manufacture and consumption o1
Whisky. The manufacture and i'm
ports were: 10 3di az bS15d1e4 al
4 ~ naiiagi ellt gas15 1872: : ~ 1873;
Manufacture - -. 80. l2s,si9 i5ls O.
Imports. ~. - a604l ~ 273SR
Total in e City in twso years, Years 4s5p as
Exports ga y see99
Left in city for consump-
ton 1895 50,5G
n This gives 81 800 barrels Of, whisk,
as the i, annual NJ feSonsg@gtisn IT, II, this
consumed in tho, city, Gndoubtedl.
la portion Of this, but II can not bt
! livery large. is consumed IN manufacto
ries. is, safe to say, that three
81 fourths Of the. above amount Of whisk,
! i is drank in the city each year. Ifal
the liquor shops sold whisky Cane
many Of them as not each one woult
average 100 gallons Year. The aver
| age price is 50 cents a gaflon-Athres
fourths Of which is proit-whichgi give.
!. LEGO cents to a. gallon) an, average o
si2O q year on whisky alone; Let u