Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-16

1t was that brought those who came day by
day under my care, it was only the same
sad tale, drink, drink, drink, Father. I
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 horrible picture to look
upon,Cday 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 we'll as grovelling ignor-
ance and poverty.
You may understand the extent of this
evil in England when tell you that the ar
rests for drunkenness in soSae of the prin-
cipal cities run thus: In Edinburgh there
were 1929 arrested during the year and
5000 of those were for being drunk. In
Glasgow there were 58,912 ap-
prenensions, and 27,25S of those we're
for being drunk. In Dublin there
we're 1904 apprehensions and 1858 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 we're
25,661 apprehensions and lO,699 for being
drunk. In Liverpool there were 32,616
apprehensions and 1859 for being drunk.
And this in one year, in England; and in
Scotland, I mean i n Edinburgh; and in
Dublin there we're 239,250 apprehensions
and 101. 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 OF
| 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 I 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.
| 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 twenty eight cases that we're
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 unnatura
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 fol
his unnatural and barbarous violation i
was the one answer, shrink"
Stand under the shadow of the scaffold
and as the white cap is drawn over the
eyes of the criminal, listen to the reason
that has brought him to such stage an6
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 e
to those who stand by the criminals whe1
they have been sobered into reason, anG
they will tell you that the Demon
that demon drink-took possession
of them and not only darkene6
their intellect but hardened every senti
ment of their heart. Men who were a:
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 I witnessed and what a sac
part I....had to take in terrible tragedy
which occurred on board of the ship OF
which I crossed the ocean a few week
ago. We left London in thu
ship German on the 18th of Au
gust. There were some 8O'
souls on board. Many that appeared
bright and happy in leaving the land ap
peared to be Swallowed with sorrow ant
suffering; but many pictured to themselve
fields of honest, Independent labor, wher,
they might work themselves into posi-
tions of manhood and independence
which was refused them at home. The shil
left the green old isle, and was toiline
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 gon'
to sleep, in the dead of the night, Their
was a voice heard on the deck; it wa
strong and sonorous: ooh, my God, for thu
sake of thy sovereign goodness and infinite
mercy, which love above all things, I an
exceedingly sorry, and do grieve from thu
bottom of my heart that I have offended the'
and firmly resolve, with the assist tanc o.
thy grace, never, never more to offend
thee'' "Stand up! Stand up!' Along
beside him man stood, and darkene6
lamp shed its light upon his countenance
and he was brave young fellow, full Of
life and energy, as handsome man as yor
ever looked upon, strong and powerful
''Stand up! Stand upw and his senorious
voice sounding high above the noise and
din around him. His voice crying out
there to his God upon that deck brought
up many of the passengers, and among the
rest priest. He went up to him. ''Stano
up! Stand up! Touch me not"' He
would not recognize the priest. I was i'm
mediately sent for. I went UP to the man
''Stand up! Stand up"' But he went
on, ooh! my Gody' and re-
peated the same prayer. l never heard 6
mani have stood by the bedside OF
hundreds-and never heard a man repeat
an act of contrition SO fervently, more