Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-14

Education IN his report for 1871, p.
541, says that from so to go per
cent of our criminals connect their
causes of crime with intemperance.
An English Judge says: EVERY
crime has its origin, more or less, in
drunkenness.
Hon. J. c. Park, in his testimony
before a committee of the Massachus-
setts legislature, in 1867, said that
ninety-nins ne-hundredths of all
crimes sDring from intemperance. .
The Chaplin of the state prison of
the same state, testifes that nineteen
twentieths of the crimes committed by
those under his care arose from the
use of alcoholic liquors"
A close observer, Rev S. j. May,
estimated that 400 suicides and 5000
murders are directly resultant from in
temperance annually.
Not less than 100000 persons are
sent annually to our jails and state
prisons, because of this evil
Alcohol arousss every evil passion,
while at the same time it binds the will
The drunken man is, therefore,
~eady to commit almost any crime; he
does not reflect, and feels but little re-
straint The innocent, the weak, the
detenceless, are his victims.
The records of crime in our country
should satisfy every unprejudiced
mind that the welfare of the state d.
mands both prompt and vigorous &C
ton with reference to this evil
We spend annually large sums of
money to support our common schools
and other educational institutions. and
the work Of the schc oil is to build up
character. The work of the dram
shop is to pull down.
If the future of our republic is to
rest on the intelligence and patriotism
Of the people, then we should rise
above the politician to the level of the
statesman, and by encouraging and
multiplying all our institutions that
have for their object the development
of the physical, intellectual and moral
nature Of the citizen, place that future
on an enduring foundation. and place
under the banner Of outlawry every
thing that can, that does weaken am.
destroy.
The work of the teacher is to build
up, the work of the dram-shop is to
destroy.
The one addeth strength and re-
spectability, the other weakness and
degradation.
There are in the United States about
10000 places where intoxicating
liquors are sold
In 1870. there were about 142, 00U
schools of all grades.
These public schools cost the people
$64, $50. 673 annually.
The dram shop costs the people
500, 900, 900 annually.
PennsJ lvania paid for education in
single year SIS, 399, 1913, and for the
same year she paid for alcoholic liquors
$50, 600 more than nine times
as much for destruction, as preserya-
ton
Science brands the fatal deception,
it denounces alcohol as a poison;
poison in the drop, poison in the GAL
lon; poison in cider, ale, wine and
beer, as certainly as in brandy, rum.
gin or whisky-poisoA always and
everywhere.
DR. Willard Parker, one of the most
eminent of American physicians, says:
"Alcohol has no place in healthy
system, but is an irritant poison, pro
ducing a diseased condition of both
body and mind
The highest medical authority in
the world, the international Medical
College, at its session in Philadelphia,
held September, 1876, condemns the
use of intoxicating liquors as beverag-
es, because they could be properly en-
ployed only as medicines, and should
never be taken except under the direc-
ton of a physician.
DR.. Carpenter, Of England, one of
the very best authorities on this sub
ject, endorses the following certificate,
which was signed by more than 1000
of the physicians Of Great Britain:
eve, the undersigned. are of the
opinion that a very large portion of
human misery, including poverty. dis,
ease and crime. is induced by the use
of alcoholic or fermented liquors as bev-
erages."
Nearly all the physicians of New
York City and vicinity testify to the
same effect
They class alcohol with other powers
ful drugs, and conclude their testlmo-
ney in the following language:
1--WE would welcome any judicious
and effective legislation state or nat
ional which should seek to confne
the traffic in alcohol to the legitimate
purposes of medical and other sciences,
art and mechanism
There is no nutriment in it; it does
not develop an increase of animal heat,
and even as a medicine it is condemn
ed and discarded by not few of our
able physicians.
Parents transmit the evil results O!
intemperance to their off springs; a
sad fact which should not be overlook
ed by those who have the power to d :
minish these evils by means # wis
and effective legislation.
intoxicating liquors are the allies of
death, they diminish the probabilities
of prolonged existence and hurry