Daily globe., 1882-08-03

| tell us9 Ale -hoI, ocean-ke, floods the land Mill
diIutions, wines do not satisfy us; fermentation
and dist lston called into active service TO pro
vide It in more undiminiEhed vigor, and whether
be wine or beer whisky the vile art Of adultera
ton is often employed TO enhance Its maddeninf
power Acc riding to the report OF the commits
sionef of internal revenue, dated July J. 1881, w
find In the United States engaged in the sale Of dis
TILED liquors (this calculation leaves out those who
are engaged exclusively in the sale Of wines or fer
mented drinks) liz wholesale dealers and 170,64l
| retail dealers. This statement gives us one retail
dealer, whisky saloon keeper, TO 800 OF the
population Of the country, men, women and children
| We know that all whisky sellers do not honor the
government with report of their traffic, aud when
to this fact add that children and women are gen.
orally to be taken out of the list OF consun e,s We
begin TO see wisst immense quantities of alcohol In
| its fercest forms are used by the adult males OF
America. We are not 10 suppose that saloons exist
on small sales. Those who bsve PAID attention TO
the business assert that average Of SIS per day is
by no means an unreasonable estimate OF the sum
paid to each saloon of the country for drink Be
sides, We have from the commissioner OF revenue
the figures in gallons Of the amount of distilled
liquor sold In year, ILL., $50 gallons, T. two
and one-third gallons 10 every person, man, woman
or child, in the country. At least l0000Oo0 barrels
United States, aud In addition to distilled and
fermented liquors very large quantity, certainly Of
wines. native and imported, Is used.
In the United States the cost Of alcoholic liquors
to the consumers Ia year has been S76)00J,00O,
or an average OF over SIS 10 every man, woman and
child Ia the country. l. G7eet Britain the cost in
average of $50 to every person of the popu
lation. II is difficult for the mind without some
term Of comparison 10 comprehend these hgures.
Inc sum spent n four years for alcoholic drinks In
Great Britain would purchsse all the railroads In the
country, and the sum spent IN six years would pay
OF the national debt The aggregate OF wages paid
during Ihs year 1869 was only S775.58i,00o, but
slightly ia excess OF the driok bill for the same
year. The total yslue OF al church property in the
country In 1870 was S3b4.433.000. Blk months,
aDstiQelCn d-i
EVILS OF INFEMPERAEcE.
With this immense consumption of alcohol upon
what q terrific volcano OF evil and misery society
rests The direct expenditure of hundreds Of mil
lions for little beyond mere pleasurable excitement
10 the least deporable result Alcohol taken beyond
very moderate doses at first Weakens, then totsly
suspends, reason. Man is incapacitated for all the
duties of life and Is left without protection prey 10
bis vilest and most untarned passions. Alcohol
directly tnfames these passions; 1t is oil poured on
their burning fire. 1t fills the mouth with bias
phemy and arms the hand for murder. It is the
ready foe of purity 1t withers all generous aspra
tions OF the heart and substitutes 10 their stesd the
coldest Sc shness. 1t turns man into an animal 1t
makes him the demon incarnate.
Now picture 10 yourselves two hundred thousand
or more drinking shops In the republic, belchin g
forth over the land their alcoholic fumes; from your
kno owledge of two or three of them imagine how
many men 10 the whole country are bereft, through
them, Of reason and you will form an idea OF the
woe ana gin that acoh produces. All classes, high
ance. The brightest mind and the noblest heart
are numbered among the victims. Human wrecks,
whose fortune 1t has disspaed whose intellect 1t has
stified, strewn the land thick autun nal
leaves In the forest. Homes devastated; hearts
OF mothers broken; the joys Of the wedding morn
ing turned into ceaseiess mourning; children scat
tered as waits through pitiless world. One weeks
perusal Of daily paper fills the mind with horror at
tho shocking accidents the suicides, the murders,
the ruin of innocence, and the crimes of all kinds
caused by intemperance Sin, the offense sgainst
Than .f aarfh Ia
heaped upon SIM and the mouth OF he'll ever remains
gaping vide to receive the legions Of souls whose
DOOM because of intemperance, Is eternal perdtion
THE CAUSE OF oRIME AND PAUrERIsK.
"Intemperancs," writes Gard. Mccabe, Of Dublin,
Is the source Of nearly all our crimes and misfor
tunes. Thousands Of premature graves tell OF Its
ravages Our warehouses; are thronged with its vic
TINS. Its baleful tyranny Is cramming our jaiIs
with criminals The deep wall OF woe, the n oan of
despair that burst continually from wretched homes
tell Of misery through the land, which God alone
can measure"
"It ia a dreadful evil," writes, In England The
Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, seating out
the very heart of society, destroying domestic life
among our working classes, and, perhaps, doing
more harm than other cauee that conld be namad
in this age. 1t is the public source of n isery, pow
eriy and crime
Said Lord Chief Justice Coleridge In 1877: "If we
could make England sober we might shut up nine
tentn6 Of our jails.
Chief Justice Noah Davis. of New York, writes:
"Of all the causes of crime, intemperance stands
out the unspproachable chief"
report of q COMMITTEES TO the Dominion House OF
Commons In 1875 says, 1--WE find, on exs mining the
reports OF the prison inspectors for the provinces OF
Ontario and Quebec, that out of % 2S9 commitments
to the jails for three years, 81 236 we're com ied
either for drunkenness or for crimes perpetrated un
der the influence of drink"
BY order of the bureau OF statistics of labor in Bos
ton o close investigation was made during the year
1881 into all crimes for which sentences were passed
In Suffolk county, for the purpose OF ascertaiuing
the exact share which, In the commission of these
crimes, belongs to Intoxicating drink. The results
lately published show that, adding to the distinct
lively "rum crimes" the crimes committed under the
influence Of drink. havo total OF "a per cent of
all crime due dir scly indirectly to the influence
of liquor. The report Of the bureau concludes with
these words: fhe figures paint picture, at once
the most faithful and hideous, of the guilt and
power of rum. Men and women, the young, the
middle.aged and the old, father and SOB, husband
and wife, native and foreign borD the night walker
and man-slsyer, the thief and the adulterer all ies
tify to Its raniied and revolving tyranny. The re
snit of the investigation calls for earnest
and immediate attention at the bar OF pablo opinion
aud the public conscience of Massachusetts ;" The
condition of things in Mess ssachusets Is certainly
worse than the condition of things In other states
Rum is not the cause Of all crime. Where rum
neser enters there are crimes, many OF them most
hideous before God; but all thipgs told, The words
OF Judge Davis remain incontrovertible: "Of all
the causes Of crime intemperance stands out the
unapproachable chief" Statistics of poor houses
asylums and reformsiories show 1t equally the un-
approachable chief amid the causes of pauperism
Seventy-hve per cent OF all, young or old, who live
upon public or private aims, were reduced to their
helpless condition either by their own ntempersnce
the intepperanos of their parents and protectors
HOW FARES THE IRISH PEOPLE?
You will permit this plain question: Amid tbs
general ruin and devastation caused by drink, how
fares the Irish people?
am not afraid that will offend Irishmen by put
ting this question. The Irish people are willing to
hear the truth when told to them for their good by
those whose motives they do not question. FlRter-
ers make poor physicians; If there is mslady, let
the trsth be spoken.
speak for the good of the Irish people. beg
you to listen for their coed. thousand ties bind
US to them; the greater number of US are part and
parcel OF Them; our labors are cast amidst them
cannot ignore the Importance of the Irish element
prime factor in state and church.
The time Is prcptious; 1t Is an era OF
Irish patriotism. The virtues and the sufferlngs OF
The day In the designs of Providence is manifesty
dawniDg, when the tears of centuries shall be dried
and their hearts throb at last under the influence of
unalloyed joy To hasten their deliverance friends
and patriots q e on hand Ia numbers each one with
his remedy for this ills Of the Irish people. have
my remedy, and will publish 1t to the world-Tem-
perance: pronounce tie word with deep love, be-
cause of my faith in the remedy and my hope that
it shall be applied.
must not be misunderstood The Irish people do
not drink more alcoholic liquor than others; they
drink positively less in Ireland than the English or
the Scotch do in England and Scotland. sStiil, this
much is true: Alcohol does them more harm, be-
cause their warm nature yie Ids more readily its
flames, snd in the wreck which follows they have
more virtues to sacrifice Nor do mean to say that
intemperance is the sole OF their yet this
much is true: 1t is great cause Of woe for them,
and were 1t once q mere memory of the past other
causes would not long linger among them.
If there Is man who should ou,se alcohol, and
visit upon the full wrath OF his SOUL 1t is he who
sincerely the Irish people The picture of their
virtues entrances. They are the most hberty-lovng
people on the earth. Eight hundred years OF OPP
preston have left no mark in their freeman hearts,
Generous-tbe viii is beyond the meaus selfish
ness melts and vanishes beneath their soft skies
Brave and spirited-bstte-iie tell their valor as
the counsels of nations speak their wisdom. Pure
in morals-the gem of purity nothing can snatch
away from the coronet of the isle of virgins and
martyrs. Such the children of Erin. BUT in
an evil hour, he-whoever may have been It's agents
distilled aicohol throuph their pisns