The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-22

penditures of the peoples money, for
that which might be dispensed with,
were 1t not for the everywhere presence
of the demon-drink.
The statistics of crime only show
what is forced upon the surface. Po-
licemen avoid making arrests as much
as they can, and convictions are diff
cult, as witnesses will not testify lest
they be locked up in the House of De-
tention, while the offender is released
on bail
In New York, oftentimes, the ac-
cuser and witness receive more annoy
ance and suffering than do the Offend
ers, though they may at last be con-
victed.
There are S,034 whisky-shops in New
York City, the keepers of which have
certified that they are of good, moral
character. Of these, 1904 have served
their time in various State prisons; g.
Cos have been confined in county prisons;
| 1,759 have been cooled off''in the sta
ton houses; leaving 1,616 of the num-
Der who have thus far been able to
elude the vigilance of the police.
The liquor shops of New York City,
if placed side by side, would completes
ly line both sides of street extending
from the Battery to Kings Bridge.
There are Twenty-Five places where
liquors are retailed, not including drug
stores, on five consecutive blocks in
the best portion of Sixth avenue; and
Sixth avenue has fewer liquor stores
than any business avenue in New York
City.
Of 32,S37 criminals in Germany, in
1881, 1879 per cent. of the males, and
1871 per cent. of the females, committed
their offense while in state of alco-
holism.
In Massachusetts, from official re-
ports, it is shown that there is de-
crease of 81 per cent in the number of
cases of drunkenness where prohibition
is now the rule, an increase of 69 per
cent. in the number of cases of crime,
and 14O per cent. in the number of cases
of intoXication, where liquor is allowed
to be sold
The United States Commissioner for
Education. in his report says 80 to 80
per cent. of criminals connect their
course of crime with intemperance.
Of the 14,315 inmates of the Massat
chusetts State prisons, 12,3 or 81 per
cent, are reported to have been intem-
perate.
In the New Hampshire State prisons
IS out of 81 inmates admit themselves
to have been Incorporate.
Of the criminals confined in the State,
county and municipal prisons in Con-
necticut more than 80 per cent admit
to the habit of drinking.
Ninety-three per cent. of those con-
fined in the Deer Island House of In
dustry are confined for crimes connect
ed with liquor.
In Philadelphia, last year, thirty-four
murders were each traceable to intern
perance, and twenty-one assaults with
intent to kill proceeded from the same
cause.
OF over $4,000 persons arrested in
Philadelphia last year, Is per cent.
were caused by incompetence; of 49, 800
persons committed to city prisons, more
than two thirdJ were the consequence
of intemperance.
In the children's hospital in New
, York City there were committed, in
1880, 1870 for drunkenness, who took
with them their nursing infants.
Within the last twenty years oul
} teachers have increased from % to sc
per cent and pupils attending school,
t more than 80 per cent, yet crime has
increased 60 per cent, about keeping
pace with the increase of the traffic in
liquors.
Judge Noah Davis, of New York,
states, that in an experience of twenty
five years on the bench, he has found
? three-fifths of all cases of violence to be
| directly traceable to strong drink.
Judge Allison says: "In our criminal
courts, we can trace four-tifths of the
crimes that are committed, to the infu-
ence of rum" There is not one case in
twenty where man is tried for his life
in which rum is not the direct or indi,
rect cause of the murder.-lh'S. Eliza
beth Thompson, IN National View.