Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-21

words to lure honest working people into
his den. The ideal saloon keeper was
pictured by Bishop Ireland as an upright,
conscientious, law-abiding citizen, who
does not sell liquor to drunkards or minors;
who permits no indecent or blasphemous
language at his bar, who does not violate
precious traditions and the sacred law o +
the land by selling on Sunday, who does
not drug his wine, and who exacts only
just price for it. He would not say that
saloon keepers could not be discovered who
correspond with this ideal picture, but
Diogenes, travelling over America, lamp in
hand, might fall by the wayside before
his search was rewarded. Applause.
The saloon, as it actually exists, was then
pictured, with dark cellar or its painted
windows, and Ia proprietor whose sole am
| bition is to roll the dimes and dollars into
his till.
Some figures were next given by the
| lecturer to show the extent of the liquor
business in the United States. The total
| number of dealers in'all kinds of liquors
was stated to be 1876, 729, or one flor every
270 men, women and children. In the
First district of Illinois, which groups the
rural counties of Kane and Du Page with
| Cook, there are $500 licensed rum sellers,
or one to to every $50 of the population.
But the official figures do not
TELL THE WHOLE STORY,
as there are large number of unlicensed
rum holes and home saloons in the
shape of we'll stocked sideboards, for ultra
respectable people, who buy directly from
the whisky dealer by the keg or case,
which is not voted as vulgar by the
prevailing social etiquette Figures
were also given to show
the waste in the resources of the
country. Estimating from statistics fur
nished by DIR. Hargreeve, there are 722,560
hopeless drunkards in the United States.
As fast as they roll into their graves others
| come up to take their places. On the basis
| of the same estimate there are 1850 hope
| less drunkards in the First district of Hi
nois. Deducting children and other alb
stainers the average number of patrons TO
| each saloon in Chicago would be about 25.
Further figures were then quoted from DIR.
| Richardson showing the proportion of ar
rests for drunkenness in different cities.
In San Francisco in one year of 1860 ar
rests $4,000 we're for drunkenness; in Bos-
| ton out of 1887 arrests, 1883 were for
| drunkenness or crimes growing out of it;
| in New York there were 1871
arrests booked as drunk and disordeNy cut
of a total of 1859; in Philadelphia ri, 205
out of total of A 600; in Chicago the po-
| lice report showed a total Of 31,713 arrests
| Of these 3,443 were booked as drunk and
| disorderly, while 1858 were simply eds
orderly" which led Bishop Ireland to re-
mark that the police officials of Chicago
seemed to be pretty severe on the disor-
derby people. Some facts were likewise
set forth showing the proportion of crime
in Chicago due to whisky, as CLEANED from
the city papers during the first ten days of
January, and
| THE SAME GENERALIZATION
was made from incidents of similar char
acter during that period in different parts
of the country.
Commenting on these facts, Bishop Ire
land said that the silent tongues and idle
arms of the moral and conservative peo-
pie of the country WAS to some extent, at
least, responsible for them. The whisky
men had placed over their rum holes the
flag of personal liberty and civil rights,
and the moral members of the community
had permitted it. The most fearful reve-
lation in connection with the spread of
intemperance, he continued, is that it has
invaded the ranks of YOUTH and has not
paused before the altar of womanhood.
Spreading of the necessity of temperance
people exertiGg themselves to save the
victims of liquor, he drew vivid picture
of the drunkard's home say
ing that the tiger of the
forest and the lion of the desert
care for their little ones, but drunken
father leaves his children to starve. Re-
curing to the other branch of his subject,
Bishop Ireland said that the criminal cal
endar is loaded down with alcohol, and
the temperance question has thus become
a great social problem. He agreed with
Chief Justice Noah Davis, of New York,
that while alcohol may not be the sole
cause of crime it is the unapproachable
chief OF all causes. The statistics are sim
ply alarming. If the streets of Chicago
are nightly infested with thugs and YAM
pires, its citizens should look into the sa-
looms for the cause. Liquor begets law
lessness, and, Bishop Ireland continued
impressively, if the spirit spreads much
further the day of doom for republican in
situations is nigh.
Discussing
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS
of the subject, he held that there should
be no widespread poverty in a country
like the United States. If such poverty
exists there is reason for it, which is
found in the eever-yawning gulf that re-
ceives the earnings of the workingmen.
People who talk of improving the people
without pointing to the saloon as the first
cause of poverty and misery talk to the
empty air. Make the people sober, and in
| America there is no fear of social commo-
ton, communism or nihilism. Make them
sober, and their own intelligence will
teach them how to war against
monopoly. But if these fearful
events ever happen, the saloons
must be held responsible for them. The
danger of the republic to-day, Bishop
Ireland contended, a danger which Rome
or Athens never experienced, is from
alcohol Woe betide the country in which
the party caucus is held around the beer
table, in which the slate is made up in the
rum shop. The liquor party is bold and
ambitious, as we'll as domineering, and its
advances demand the attention of all
good citizens.
| The sin of drunkenness was also con-
sidered in the light of Catholic doctrine,
after which Bishop Ireland discussed prac-
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