The Morning herald., 1876-01-06

of The crimes OF violence brought before ~
are traceabie, directly and indirectly, to In
temnerance. Some of The sa1dest cases
with which We have to deaf are those In
which men 20 into public houses respecta-
BILE and respected, and come out felons'
w turn to NJ. .,6elfs. Police Magistrate
of Westminster
If the Police-sheets submitted to Lon
don magistrate every morning contain, say
twenty charges. the chances are that niteen
out of the twenty involve drunknenees 10
the prisoner; s.g., A. B., drunk ana iscs-
pabie: G. D.. drunk and dis0Fderly; Z. +,
drunk and riotous; G. H., drunk, and using
obscene language; l. J., wilful damage,
drunk when charged; K. L., violent assauit
drunk when charged; and SO on, through all
the letters OF fhe alphabet t-' d..
Again from police magistrate at Liver
pool:-'D Drunkenness is the cause Of nine
tenth Of the crime in this country .-.4
Let a. take next the answer. Of chap
lains and governors II PRISONS ..J
From an experience Of eighteen years as
chaplain. l an convinced that at least Is per
cent. of those who are committed, whether
for great or small offences, owe it In some
shape to intemperance.'
$3.50 prisoners have passed through my
hands, and quite 80 per cent. have acknowl
edged drink as the cause of their getting
inte trouble -.-- :.
Il give an account of 1000 prisoners, to
whom have spoken personally. Ut z96
females, 1856 confess they are drunkards;
but many more may be, for they have
stranes ideas a 70 what constitutes drunk
emese. OF 7O4 males, $50 confess they are
drunkards; and the sane remark applies to
the men ! have made on the women. "a Of
the women have drunken husbands. Many
boys in prison, aged Ii and IA, are drunk
ards; and girls Of Is and l6 are dyunkards.
A Of the younger criminals have drunken
fathers, and 16, drunken mothers.'
Chief csnstables and superiAtenden:s Of
police follow next
About Is per cent. 1t brings the victims
of their families to poverty and want, and
the crime follows
Intcmperance is the hot bed Of all
crime ...
Nearly the sole cause of crime.
sHabituAl drinkers, who have not the means
to maintain themselves in respectable
position, invariably become criminals
'Intemperance is in proportion to the In
discriminate sale of drink.
BY inducing persons to spend their earn
ings in intoxicating drinks, instead Of pro-
viding for themselves and those dependent
on them for their bread. In fact, th. pub
lic-houss ID q blot and disgrace 70 this
country ..... ........
'Public-houses and beer-shops induce par
ties to steal, &C., applying the proceeds
thereof to drink
'Public-houses are points of meeting,
where plans are laid for burglaries and
poachisg expeditions.
The policemen, especially, speaks elo-
Ynently in the following
The liquor traffic is productive Of crime.
Drink tends to destroy every kind and SEN
| sitive feeling; renders man crael and savage
! in domestic and public life; hardens the
heart to commit deadly acts of violence on
| unoffending persons; especially on those whose
duty tits to repress ,ci!f,l and aapless desires.
'One or two beer shops would alone, by
the crime they produce, find employment
for the policemen
We now take few answers from gev-
srnors and chaplains Of wsrkhousss-
Eighty out of every hundred are admitted
inte this workhouse from drunkenness, and
losing their work
i have been engaged in the administra-
tion of the new poor law for twenty years.
could almost say that every pauper inmate
of workhouse is made SO, directly or in
directly, through intempsrance. an not
teetstaler.'
Nearly all, Immediately or remotely, by
drink. Immediately, through insanity,
! rtv on1 Suah tn al,
through transmission Of offspring ofspilepsy
1distcy, semi-idiotcy, scrofula, and other in
cident diseases.
after the experience of twenty -one years
As governor of this workhouse, I am pre-
pared to say that have never seen hus
band and wife and their children becoming
inmates hut have traced the cause of their
poverty to the intemperance either of hus-
band or wife-in most cases to the hus-
band's.'
! 'Two-thirds. Drink is the most promi-
nent curse of the land. Residence in work
house for three months would soon con-
vince any one of that
4 have twenty-nins men in this house, in
dependent of lunstics, and all, with the ex-
ception of three, are thorough drunkards.
One, with whom conversed, declared his
belief that, If the question could be asked
of the 6ends below, "What brought you
here 7" the answer would be "Drink." Of
women have twenty-five. Three of these
may call idiotic (oue old woman Of good
character.) The rest, drunkards and aban-
done1. Three -fourths Of the children, file
gi innate, orphans, or deserted, are left to
the care of the Union through the
drunken and dissolute habits of their pa
rents
4 haye now seen twenty EIGHT years of
public service; first as police officer, then
as warden in . prison, and for the last
seventeen years here. l am positive that
strong drink is the::very curse of our land,
the root of all sin and evil. In my humble
opinion, SO long as this curse is allowed to
continue we shall have our prisons and
warehouses we'll stocked