Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-03

ton is often employed to enhance its maddening
power. According 10 the report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue, dated July j. 1881, We
find in the United States engaged In the sale Of dis
titled liquors (tbis calculation leaves out those who
engaged exclusively in the gale of wines or fer
mented drinks) s,l1l wholesale dealers and lIOI64O
retail dealers. This statement gives us one retail
dealer, whisky saloon keeper, to 300 of the
population OF the county, men, women and children
We know that all whisky sellers do not honor the
government with q TepoI. Of their traffic, and when
20 this fact add that children and women are gen.
esay to be taken.out of the list OF consuu e.s We
begin TO what immense quantities OF alcohol IN
its fercest forms Used by the adult males of
America. We are not to suppose that saloons exist
on small sales. Those who have paid attention to
the business assert that average of Sl5 per day IL
by no means an unreasonable estiTnate 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. III 723, $50 gallons l. e two
and one-thrd gallons to every person, man, woman
or child, in the country at least lO,gO1Oo9 barrels
| of beer and ale are manufactured and sod ia the
| United States, aud ia 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 in one year has been S75jO0JOJO,
or an average of over 10 10 every man, woman and
child ia the country Great Britain the cost in a
| year has been gag 600 003 or $740,000.COO, an
average of $50 10 every person OF the popu-
lation. 1t is fiicult for the MUD without some
term Of comparison 10 comprehend these hgures.
The SUN spent In four years for alcoholic drinks IN
Great Britain would purchase all the railroads IN the
country, and the spent III six years Would pay
| of the national debt The aggregate OF wages paid
by all the manufacturing estabi shnents in A1erica
! during The year 1869 was only S7I5.6ol,CO), but
slightly IL Of the drink bill for the same
year. The total vsIuo Of all church property In the
country in 1870 SSS4433.O0O. Six months,
abstinence fro dfink would buy 1t out.
| EVILS or INrEMPERAEcE.
With this immense consumption of alcohol upon
what terrific volcano of evil and misery society
resist The direct expenditure of hundreds of mil
lions for little beyond pleasurable excitement
ia the least deplorable result Alcohol taken beyond
very 9derate doses at frat Neakens, then totally
suspends, Man is iucspscitated for all the
duties of life and Is left without protection prey to
| his vlest and most unnamed passions. Alcohol
directly iDames these passions; 1t is oil poured on
| their burning fire. II fills the mouth with bias
| pheIny and the hand for murder. 1t Is the
ready foe of purity 1t wihers all generous espra
lions of the heart, and substitutes in their stead the
coolest Sc shness. Ut turns man into an ANIMAL it
makes him the demon incarnate
Now picture 10 yourselves two hundred thousand
or more drinking shops in the republic, belchin
forth the land their alcoholic fumes; from your
kno Wedge of two three of them imagine how
many men in the whole country are bereft, through
them, OF reason, and you Will form an idea OF the
woe aud sin that alcohol produces. All classes, high
aud low, oer hoocsusts upon the altar of intemper
ance. The brightest mind and the modest heart
are numbered among the vic inns. Human wrecks,
whose fortune has disspated whose intellect it has
stifed, strewn the land thick as autup nal
leaves in the forest Homes are devastated; hearts
ing turned into ceaseess mourning; children scat
tered as waits through pitiless world. One weeks
perusai of daily paper fills the mind with horror at
the shocking accidents, the Suicides the urders,
the ruin of innocence, and the crimes OF all kinds
caused by intemperanco Sin the offenEe against
God, more terrible yet than all the of earth, is
heaped upon sin, and the mouth of hell ever remains
gaping vide 10 receive the legions of souls whose
doom, because of iutemperance, is eternal perdion.
THE CAUSE CRIME AND PAUPERIsK.
"Intemperance,'' writes Gard. McCabe, of Dublin,
is the source of nearly all our crimes and msfor-
tunes. Thousands OF premature graves tell OF is
ravages. Our warehouses; thronged with its vie
thus. Its baleful tyranny is examining our iails
with criminals. The deep wall OF woe, the of
despair that burst continually from wretchad homes
tell Of misery through the laud, which God alone
can measure"
at il dreadful evil" writes in England, the
Protestant archbishop OF Canterbury, seating ont
the very heart of society," destroying domestic life
among our working classes. and perhaps, doing
more harm than any other cause that cond be namsd
IN this age. 1t is the public source Of nisery, pow
Said Lord Chief Justice Coleridge in 1877: 'If we
could make England sober we might shut up nine
tenths of our jails -
Chief Justice Noah Davis, of New York. writes
"Of all the causes of crime intemperance stands
out the unapproachabe chief "
report Of committee to the Dominion House of
Commons in 1875 says, 1--WE find, mining the
reports of the prison inspectors for the provinces of
Ontario and Quebec that out of q, 2S9 commitments
to the jails for thrse years, Il 236 tilted
der the influence of drink"
By order of the bureau of statistic of labor in Bos
ton close investigation 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. We have total Of 81 per cent of
all crime due directly indirectly to the influence
of liquor. The report of the bureau concludes with
these Words % rho figures paint picture, at
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 son, husband
and wife, native and foreign born, the night walker
and man-slayer, the thief and the adultererz
tify TO its ramihed and revolving tyranny. The 70
suit OF the Investigation calls for earnest
and immediate attention at the bar of public opinion
and the public conscience of Massachusetts. :" The
condition OF things III Mass achusetts 10 certainly no
worse than the condition of things IN other states
Rum is not the cause of all crime. Where rum
never enters there are crimes, many Of them most
bideous before God; but al things told the words
of Judge Davis remain incontrovertible: "Of all
the CAUSES of crime intemperance stands out the
unapproachabe chief Statistics of poor houses
asy lums and reformaiories Show It equally the
approachable chief amid the causes Of psuperism
Seyenty-hve per cent. of all young or Old, who live
upon pubic or private aims, were reduced 70 their
helpless condition either by their own intempeFance
the inteperancs of their parents and protectors
FARES THE IRISH PEOPLE?
You will permit this plain question: Amid th9
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 willing to
hear the truth when told to them for their good by
those whose motives they do not question. Flater-
ers make poor physicians; if there Is ma!ady, let
the trath be spoken.
speak for the good of the Irish people. l beg
You to listen for their good. thousand ties bind
us to them; the greater number of us are part and
parcel of them; our labors cast amidst them;
cannot ignore the Importance of this Irish element
prime factor in state and church.
The time Is propitious; II IS an era of
Irish patriotism. The virtues and the suferngs OF
the Irish people have awakened universal interest.
The day in the designs of Providence is manifestly
dawning, 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 on baud in numbers. each one With
his remedy for the ills of the Irish people have
my remedy, aud will publish it to the world-Tem-
persnce. 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 III England and Scotlsnd. Still this
much Is true: Alcohol does them more harm, be-
cause their warm nature yields more readily 10 its
flames, and in the wreck which follows they have
more virtues to sacrifice. Nor do mean to say that
intemperance the sole OF their woes yet this
much is true: 1t is great cause of Voc for them,
and Were il once mere memory of the past ether
| causes would not long inger among them.
Ii there is a man who should curse alcohol, and
visit upon il the full wrath of his SOUL il is he who
loves sincerely the Irish people The picture of their
virtues entrances They are the most iiberty-loving
people on the earth. Eight hundred years of OPP
preston have left mark in their freeman hearts,
Generousthe viii is ever beyond the means selfish
| ness melts and vRDishes beneath their soft skies.
Brave and spirited bait efelds tell their valor as
| the coucsels of nations speak their wisdom. Pure
| in morals-the gem Of purity nothing snatch
| away from the coronet of the isle of virgins end
martyrs. Such the children of Erin. Hut in
an eyH hour, hel-whoever may have been its agents
distilled Alcohol through their plains and over their
mountains, aud despite their grand qualities sad
story of misery has to be told.
a fit fuel for the flame this Irish natare, with
its fiery blood and its generous aspirations It's vir-
| tnes were turned by the demon into stumbling
blocks. Alcohol was token of fr endship sign of
| joy, proof Of libershty. Advantage, too, was
taken of toe misery resulting from foreign oppres-
sion Alcehol is fount of Lethe; draught from