Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
Temperance.

GU on sunday LDe l0tn instant, sermon on temperance, which contains 30 many startling facts and so much that should be known by the whole people, that he has been urged to permit it to be published In THE NEWS. The following is the sermon, and our re lders. all of them, will be amply paid by reading it.
 PRov. XIII: 29, 30.-'Who hath woe Who hath sorrow Who hath contentious Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine "
 Some one says, ''This is the drunkard's looking glass Let him see his own face in it. Hang it up in his cottage. Put it in the ale house aud he cannot go there."
 It appears from public documents that the cost to this State annually for liquors sold and used for drinking purposes is if teen million dollars. This is the money cost, to say nothing of loss of time and la Dor. waste, injuries and crimes in addition to this. Fifteen million dollars spent every year in this State for strong drink! The railway earnings are less than $11, ,OOO, ,O0O ]! The farm wages are less than $5,000, 900 l; both but little more than equaling the cost for strong drink! The annual cost of edu- cation in this State is less than $2, GOO. 900; the cost of religion less than $l, ,25O, ,OOO; or education and religion together do not cost the people of this State one fourth tue cost of liquor! You could have four times as many schools, and four times as many churches, and not have them cost what is annually pad for liquor! The American Board of Foreign Missions and the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society together have spent in the first fifty years of their work but $l6,o0o,ooO, while $l5, 5000, ,oOO are spent every year in thls State for liquor!
 There are 5000 dram shops in this State, or three times as many as all the churches of every name! Three times as many dram shops as churches, or three dram shops to every church throughout the State These dram shops are open and exerting their influence of ruin seven days in the The churches are open but one day in the week, and but three or four hours on that day. All the time given to religious ser vices through the week amounts to less than one solid day, and on these servlces the masses do not attend. The attendance on the dram shops outnumbers immensely that on the churches. The increase in the membership of the churches averages only two and fraction per year. There are 20, 900 drunkards in the State, and these are increasing at the rate of ten per cent. annually. The statistics of crime prove this increase. In 1865 the commitments numbered ,193. h 1870 they numbered 2,246, doubling in five years. In 1871 they in 1874, 4,48l; in 1875, 4 448, double the number ln 1870. In 1870 they doubled the number of 1865, aud in 1875 doubled the number in 1870, or quadrupling in ten years The statistics of the cities of Hart ford, New Haven, Waterbury ard Nor wich are given. Twenty years ago, the governor residing in New Haven, declared of that city, that scarcely an open grog shop was to be found there. Now there are 600 or more. The arrests in Hartford in single quarter, from July to October, for drunkenness alone numbers 287. h Litchfield county the commitments have increased in ten years more than 100 pei cent, that is double. The increase oi drunkenness means the increase of crime and the increase of crime means the in crease of drunkenness. My last Religion: weekly speaks of ten recent cases of mur der in New York city, and then com ments: t. ri t.f :.
 "Peaceable citizens should not bt compelled to run the gauntlet of these bar room warrlors. Strong drink is tyrant reckless and cruel as any that ever made streets and heartbstones red with innocen blood. This sis a free country, but it is no 8 country with intelligence and pride enough among the people to make drunk enuess so penal that every man under 1t influence should be secured and held lik, any other dangerous maniac."
 The proof IS abundant and constantly re curing, that three fourths of the taxes and nine-tenths of the Panperism ans crime of the State and Nation, are due tt | wirty hn "A Statistics" report that "from 80 to 90 pc cent. of our criminals connect their caree of crime with intemperance." The statls- tics of our own state confirm the report ''In the spring of 1871 rquirles were mad
 at all the prisons in the state, by com. mittee of the legislature, and it was fount that more than 90 per cent. of their in mates had been, by their own admission, il the habits of drink" The fact that thre fourths of the taxes and nihe-tenths of th crime are occasioned by strong drink. n, one disputes but what is especially start ling, is, that drunkenness and crime are S, on the increase. If you can stand the tax es and the crimes as they have been, wha will you do as things are going on: as
 said there are 10000 drunkards in thi state, and these are increasing at the rat of 2OOU year. The jails and prisons ar
 
 Iu New Haven they had recently to enlarg or build anew. Out of 5000 arrests in on year, four-fifths were for drunkenness an, crimes resulting therefrom. We are of ficially informed that the churches of tbi state are not bolding their own. Pagan ism is gaining on them. Evil influence are increasing faster than good ones. Tn Devil is getting the upper hand.
 It is evident, with reference to the coun
 try at large, that the tune has come for great temperance reform, ard we cannO
 but rejoice that it seems to have commcnc ed. The labors of MT. Murphy in Pitts
 burgh and elsewhere /; the work of Nil
 Moody the great movement in Michigan throughout the West under Dr. Reynolds and the organization of the society in Ney York under Dr. Howard Crosby, for th Suppression of Crime, lead us to think ths this great enemy to the bodies and souls o men, is going to be crippled, if not slain. It time Society was thoroughly aroused; it time to give new attention to the cost an evils of 1ntemperance, and to bestow spe
 cial thought and effort to saving the young Suppose the $l5, ,OOO, ,0OO spent annual 2 in this state for strong drink were placed i
 the bank, what would it do2 It woul
 save the woe and crime occasioned Q
 drinking usages it would send men | their homes with happy hearts, and :, would give them better homes to go t6 Fifteen million dollars would buy fiv 5 thousand farms at three thousand dollar } each. every year. It would pay $l.QQO. Q r to l5.Oo0 families every year. It makes
 vast difference whether a mans none
 goes into bank or into a saloon. Callin f the saloon bank for loosing. rem. mbe . there are 5000 of these banks in this state ! MT. Cuyler says, ''1n each of these bank l for losings is counter on which old me and young, and even some wretched wom ] en lay down theIr deposits in either pape v or coin. The only interest that is paid e in redness of eyes and foulness of breati D and remorse of consclence. Every op