The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

~ W ln0 COot VI tAO . IaAAs
The minor, Is years old, who gets his liquors
in you saloons to-day, has lived long
enough to see us invest in jails alone the
enormous sum of $92, 800. The interest on
that sum is $3.50 per year. Gentlemen,
permit US TO call your attention to the rec
ord of
INFAMOUS CRIME
in our community. The convictions and
sentences to the penitentiary from our
county average three per year. Basing our
calculations on one generation of our race
(33T years., tie COP ~victions in round mum
bers are Just 100. Now, the average cost to
the people of the county of convicting each
man is 500. That is $4,000 more. The
grand jury costs $1,000 per year. That is
So, 900 more for a generation. Add the sal
airy of the prosecuting attorney, $1,000 per
year, and We have So, 900 more-a grand to-
tai of $780, 900. Gentlemen, a partial inyesti-
CATION shows that the city of S~helbyville
has made a permanent Investment in build
ings for the police court, guard house, &c.,
of saw one halt of the CITY buildings wbich
cost s., 1000. That would be $1,000 more. The
police of our city cost $500 for the year end
ing the day we received your letter. The
mayor, marshal, attorney and clerk, cost in
salaries, 81, 800 more. The city paid the sher-
iff $50 for imprisoning our criminals. A
tax assessed AS fines upon the persons and
W NbO6O IVA NhC 1G0l W ID
500 additional. Add all these items, and
we nave a total of IS $3.50, besides the interest
on the $1,000 half of the city building, which
is S2OO-a total of $3.50. That all these Of
hcers and expenses are required because
of the criminal classes, you must admit.
According to the proportion named by Gov
ernor Lesiies, three fourths of this expense
is c~hargable to your business, equal to SILL
1877. And for a generation Of 33L years,
even at this meagre estimate, you would
cause us damages to the extent of the enor-
NOUS sum of 1878, $780, With such opinions
against the sancity of YOU business, with
such damages as we have shown that you
infict upon our property, and having in
view the crime, misery, degradation, de-
bauchery, and sorrow which result from the
sale and use of Intoxicating liquors, we be-
lieve, before the laws of God, and the laws
OF man, that our duty calls us to make this
peaceful, loving, prayerful crusade.
Respectfully transmitted by the Women's
Temperance Alliance.
Mrs. JOHN ELLIOTT, President.
Attest: Mrs. MATTE THOMPSON, acting
secretary.
IN OHIO.
From Georgetown a correspondent writes: We
had read of seiges and other features of the work
but in the prosecution of the work
here we deemed it expedient to inaugerate a
movement entirely new, that, though hazard
JUS o. RAONSa ~ IN kLO AAoA W.
days of these visitations it was observed that the
drinking characters had become so ash AIMED of
their habit that they postponed the qualification
of appetite till they could be concealed by the
darkness of evening. 1t was therefore suggested
a company of ladies be organized for night work.
On Wednesday evening this company went out
for the first time. We bad read of the impress
iveness Of these female professions
We had felt this impreSsiveDeSs when the first
procession went forth. But the solemnity of the
scene beggars description. The stoutest hearts
were moved. Men not accustomed to weep
could not represS their tears.
AT Circleville, Ohio, the temperance crusade is
in the height OF its progress. The ladies were
out the other evening one hundred and thirty
strong, in three COMPANIES, holding prayer
meetings alternately in three liquor stores.
Temperance meeting twice a week. Five hum
dred youths and men have signed the total alb
stinence pledge. Court in session here. Moral
suasion and the law are making the situation
rather embarrassing for the saloon keepers, at
present.
From Oxford a letter says: There are as many
good women here as in any other place of its
size, as the number daily engaged in the work
will testify. The usual morning prayer meeting
is kept up, and to-day the ladies are encouraged.
They were shut out of two places, however,
where they have always been admitted. One of
these men was heard to say yesterday, after
they had left, that he would be Obliged 10 lock
his door next time, or he would give in. One
of our saloons was moved to a new stand on
Monday, but the proprietor has not the courage
to open out yet. The ladies stopped in front of
his new stand to-day, and prayed that the
locked door and barred windows might never
be opened for the. sale of rum. The friends of
temperance are encouraged, and the enthusiasm
ing, and the proprietor signed the druggists
pledge.