The Morning herald., 1876-01-06

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Mississippi at Minneapolis may be
big dom, the appropriation must be dam
big. -
Rather damaging words for gen.
tlsmsn 70 use. "
DRUNkEANEss IN E1QLAHD.
We crave public attention to the facts
stated in this article, pregnant as they are
with monitions to those charged with the
we'll being Of our own citizens. We have
culled the statistics froa, the October num-
Der Of the London Quarterly Reviex for 1875;
and are cosfdent they may be relied upon
AZ correct. The terrible wreck, one sees
daily in almost every walk of life, ~ ro-
suit Of the disease Of drunkenness, oompels
thought, o. to the best means o4 stamping
out s.ch pe.tilent cause Of misery L,
be guided BY the experience Of those who
have fully examined the ent 70 subject, is
wise, and when one rises from study Of
the case presented by such persons, it is
hard to restrain ones hostility to the entire
liquor traffic. o-
Experience has fully demonstrated that
any attempt, at absolute prohibition, i
unwise because never successful: 1t is
however, clearly proven, that an increase
Of drinking houses, tends to extend and
enlarge the disease, and consequently the
number of drunkards. In other words,
if a drinking houses is to be found,
in every SQUARE VI Town or city, there
will be greater temptation, and greater
nunber of arunkards, than in town or
city, where drinking houses are maAy
squares apart. The fswness Of such place
will not materially reduce the quantity Of
liquor used by .habitual and confirmed
drinkers, n they will 60 any distance, Il
To tisfy their craving stomachs, and brac.
their wasting. nerves; but 1t will greatly
dinini-h friendly tippling among young
men, ~ until the habit is formed, and the
disease has developed ilself-a man will mol
70 many squares to take drink, wanting
probably the time and inclination. The
leaning sequence, is-that if a lessen'ng q
the number of tavernz lessons drunkards-
then abolition would cure the disease
Human experience, however, tells us thai
no nation or people, were able 10 enforce q
.umptuary law, that the secret sale, anc
private use, is an attendant eerrollary o
total prohibition. The writer of the arti
Gle We extract from, bewails the condition
of England
"The vice of drunkenness-ha spread
over the land, pervading country as well as
town, agricultural as we'll as cOmmercia
districts. army as well as navy; sparing thu
young as little as the old, the woman
scarcely less than the man no fou
epidemic ever ragged more periodically
than this permanently; no malignant plan
ever seeded and propagated itself with mor'
fatal rapidity and abundance"
In 1859 the ecclesiastical authorities o
| the Archdiocese, Or province of Canterbury
containing population Of over 70 lrteel
millions Of souls, directed inquiries to b,
forwarded to almost every person in thu
district capable Of giving information upor
) the terrible vice. Responses came in, big
with tales of misery in its most hideou'
forms.
According to all testimony the taste fo
drinking is Of precocious attainment. Th'
evil begins with mere childhood. 'Fron
!: eight to ten isthe burden of more than ON
answer. Lads Of nine and ten begin t,
frequent public-houses with their parents.
When the boy first begins to 20 out to worl
in the bayfield, or stables As soon as they
Z earn wages Or when they first make u-
Of their earnings to join benefit club.
For by . lanentabe connection between
supply and demand there is unanimou
j testimony that ein,emperance begins whel
the lad joins the sick benefit club Boy
are seen intoxicated at twelve years o
\ age; from that time they regularly frequen
e public houses, where they are enticed t.
drink and smoke 4 have seen, clergy
" man writes, in pnblic-house On Sunday
\ = room lined all round with boys of fron
e twelve to sixteen, drinking
We speak frst Of the yeung, for there
. no need to ask how late the habit will cor
tinue. The child is here inevitably 'fathe
e Of the man. Thus it il that the seed
! sewn, and We next see how the plant -four
I ishes. We take the testimony Of the lat
!, Chief Jnst;ce, Sir William Bovill,,o who's
upi light character no testimony Of ours ca
add. ...' ...
" 'Amsng large class of our population
j. lintemperance in ea,ly life is the direct an
. immediate cause Of every kind Of fimmoral
;, lty, prohigacy, and vice, and soon leads t
the commission of crime-including murder
e manslaughter, robbery, and violent assaults
In many cases these crimes are committe
. by parties under the direct influence 4
drink. In others, the fact of man bein
h intoxicated induces persons to take advar
tage OF his helpless state, and they afte
wards escape punishment from the inabilit
d Of the victim to identify, or to know, {
is remember, or TO give evidence of what hs
! occurred
= Another Judge Sir H. 8. Keatin,
" writes in the same strain:- 49,
= In my own experience, of more than mir
Iyears upon the Bench, corrooorated by