The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-11-15
STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS.
Alcoholism as Related to Crime.

At the Central Church of Christ. at
the corner of Indiana avenue and Twen-
ty-iifth street, last evening, George G..
Christian gave lecture on Alcoholism
as Related to Crime, of which the fol-
lowing is a summary: BY the word al
] cOhOlism we denote the whole system
of drinking. buying, selling, and all that
is connected with and all that grows out
of alcohol in its various shapes. And
now for opinions and experiences given
in this matter by wcll-known men.
| Cardinal McCabc says that drink is the
cause of nearly all the crimes commit
ted. The Archbishop of Canterbury
adds his testimony, and says that rum
is the chief source of nearly all the
crimes committed in England Lord
Chief-Justice Coleridge lately said: eff
we could make England sober we might
| shut up nine-tenths of our jails." Mfr.
Justice Denman, in charging a Grand
Jury, said: Il don't know how a
Judge can better discharge bis duty
than by calling the attention of all
classes TO the fact that nearly all crime
is caused by drink" Another English
Judge lately said: NEARLY every case
of violence and outrage that comes be-
fore me originates in the public-house.
Alcoholism, besides affecting the
drinker himself, affects Indirectly men,
women and children who never drink
at all. There is much blamable senti-
mentalism among Temperance people.
They say to the drunkard: Poor fell
low! I'm very sorry for you. But it
seems you can't help it" All bosh!
He wants to drink. He will let wife
and children suffer to crafty his own
selfish appetite. Instead of poor fell
low, he is selfish, meals contemplate
wretch. '
Alcoholism includes the saloon, the
company there assembled, and the evil
attendants No high-toned man enters
saloon without iDjuring his self-re-
spect. He listens to the burly, double
listed, snake-eyed scoundrel who pre-
sides there, telling some scheme where
by the high-toned oflice-sceker, often
Judge, may secure his election. Listen
ing to such schemes, in such place,
from such scoundrel, puts poison INTO
any mans moral nature, and from such
assoc. ations originates the course of life
that brings many of our prominent men
to disgrace. Mr.. Rutlcdge, Chaplain
of Joliet Penitentiary. writes me: IL
don know which is the worst in its eff
fcctS in causing crime-the drinking
itself or the saloon associations" Mr..
Fred l.. Thompson, Superintendent of
the Southern Penitentiary at Chester,
IL, writes: The saloons are the
springs from which flow the streams
which fill our penitentiaries. Of i've
hundred prisoners here, four hundred
ard SIX frequented the saloons" Crimes
originate in the saloons, and it is to the
saloons that detectives 90 to find the
men that are wanted by the jails. The
committee appointed by the Dominion
of Canada in 1875 to investigate the mat
ter reported that more than seventy
five per cent. of the arrests made in the
two Provinces of Canada were for
drunkenness itself or for crimes com.
mitted under the influence OF drink.
Judge Noah Davis says: "Of all causes
of crime, intemperance stands first"
Judge Tuley, of this city, in letter of
August, 1888, saws: ''Of the criminals
appearing before me. the evidence shows
that a majority of them were under the
influence of drink at the time of the
commission of the crimes. | have come
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thus imbibed was for the purpose of
nerving them for the crime Judge
Thomas A. Moran, of this county, in a
letter of July q, 1888, says: ''Of adult
criminals 75 per cent. are made SO di-
rectly by drink; 90 per cent. of crimes
committed by children come indirectly
from the same source, from the low
tone of morality and general degrada-
ton resulting in the homes of the drunk
ard" Mr.. Rutledge, Chaplain at
Joliet, writes: During the past two
years | find in the case of prisoners
here, nearly all crimes against persons
to have come directly from drink; most
of those against property, from saloon
associations" Statistics show that of
the 5000 criminals in Illinois last year,
5000 came up from the saloons, the
manufactures of criminals. Neal Dow
says the people of the United States
spend 81, 800, 10000 year for drink.
To prove this here are the facts: There
are in the United States 250, 900 saloon
keepers. Each on an average sells not
less than $4,000 worth of liquor each
year. The amount thus spent, 81 ,500.-
100000, would pay for all the household
furniture now in use in the United
States and leave $500, 100000 over
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