Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15

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derstand how these questions would
awaken in ones mind some effort to check
and stem this torrent of evil My work in
this large prison was something like man
that was condemned during the day to fill
a barrel that was pierced with holes, and
during the night all ones work was ended,
and it was beginning afresh each morning.
When came to study the causes and what
it was that brought those who came day by
day under my care. it was only the same
sal tale, drink, drink. drink, Father. 1
saw there the young and the old, the
educated and the ignorant, the mother and
the daughter; each one degraded by this
terrible destroyer of virtue and of self re-
spect. Oh! it is a horrible picture to look
upon,-day by day to look upon the wreck
of human lives: to see the shipwreck of in
tellect: of brilliant talent: of high culture;
of refinement as well as groveliing ignor-
ance and poverty.
You may understand the extent of this
evil in England when l tell you that the ar
rests for drunkenness in sOsle of the prin-
cipaI cities run thus: In Edinburgh there
were 1O,22S arrested during the year and
5000 of those were for being drunk. In
Glasgow there were 58,912 APP
prenensions, and 27,25S of those were
for being drunk. In Dublin there
were 1904 apprehensions and 1888 for
being drunk. In London, what is called
the metropolitan division, there were
71,259 apprehensions and 21,625 for
being DRINK. In Manchester there were
1861 apprehensions and 1868 for being
drunk. In Liverpool there were 1856
apprehensions and 1859 for being drunk.
And this in one year, ip England; and IN
Scotland, I mean n Edinburgh; and in
Dublin there were 239,250 apprehensions
and 1O1,s44 for being drunk. You can
readily understand now how it is drink
fills our prisons in England from one end
of the country to the other, that it is the
prolific parent of crime; of every form CT
crime. If men commit robbery; if men
commit any crime whatever in our coun-
try, it is in nine cases out of every ten
because they are the slaves of drink, and
it is to obtain this drink money that the
crime is committed.
You know nothing here in this country of
pauperism but Mr.. Greenwood, from whose
Investigations 1 take these figures, stated
in his work that some time in 1868, IN the
pauper institutions of our country, that
there were one million paupers, and
those who have had anything to do with
pauperism in England will tell you that
nearly all of those who are reduced to seek
shelter within the walls of our warehouses
and our pauper institutions owe their de-
graduation and their misery to drink.
l will not travel over that beaten road to
tell YOU that drink is the cause Of the lu-
macy of our country. I will simply state
to you that in twehty-eight cases that were
Investigated some time ago that came into
the Middlesex hospital it was ascertained
that nineteen Of those cases were owing to
drink.
Oh! my friends you need not travel over
the ocean to be convinced that drink is the
destroyer Of the nations strength, of its
wealth and its prosperity, Take up one of
your own papers, run over its columns and
see day by day the catalogue Of crime you
Will find there recorded; see the barbarity;
see the terrible vices, the unnatural
vices, that spring from this
terrible destroyer. Only to-day did not
your blood run cold as you read that ter
rible outrage upon a mere infant child,
and when the wretch sought an excuse for
his unnatural and barbarous violation it
was the one answer, ''drink."
Stand under the shadow of the scaffold,
and as the white cap is drawn over the
eyes of the criminal, listen to the reason
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his answer will be drink. Oh! my friends
those who have the opportunities not SIM
ply to read the details of crimes as chron-
icled in the public press of the country go
to those who stand by the criminals when
they have been sobered into reason, and
they will tell you that the Demon
that demon drink-took possession
of them and not only darkened
their intellect but hardened every senti-
ment of their heart. Men who were as
gentle as girls; men who are full of love
and affection;men possessing the brightest
traits of our nature, let them once become
the slaves of this terrible vice, and what
outrages. what unnatural crimes they COM
NIT! And I shall never forget to my dy
ing hour what 1 witnessed and what a sad
part ::..had to take in a terrible tragedy
which occurred on board of the ship on
which I crossed the ocean few weeks
ago. . We left London in the
ship German on the 18th of Au-
gust. There were some 800
souls on board. Many that appeared
bright and happy in leaving the land ap-
peared to be Swallowed with sorrow and
suffering; but many pictured to themselves
fields of honest, Independent labor, where
they might work themselves into posi-
tons of manhood and independence,
which was refused them at home. The ship
left the green old isle, and was toiling
away amid the battling waves. The moon
was in her first quarter. The dark clouds
gathered, and the ship went dancing along,
and when all hands were generally gone
to sleep, in the dead of the night, there
was a voice heard on the deck; it was
strong and sonorous: "Oh, my God, for the
sake of thy sovereign goodness and infinite
mercy, which I love above all-things, am
exceedingly sorry, and do grieve from the
bottom of my heart that I have offended thee
and firmly resolve, with the assist tame of
thy grace, never, never more to offend
thee" ''Stand up! Stand up!' Along
beside him a man stood, and a darkened
lamp shed its light upon his countenance,
and he was brave young fellow, full of
life and energy, as handsome man as you
ever looked upon, strong and powerful.
''Stand up! Stand up"' and his senorious
voice sounding high above the noise and
din around him. His voice crying GU
there to his God upon that deck brought
up many of the passengers, and among the
rest priest. He went up to him. ''Stand