The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24

make them shun society, and when this
is so the downward career is very rapid.
At last they lose all discrimination and
will drink anything, anywhere. at any
time, or at anyone's expense, if it only
promises them the pleasure of intoxica-
ton. Ultimately they die in ditch, a
workhouse, or hospital if they are
poor-in lunatic asylum if they are
better of. or perhaps in a prison.
Sometimes man will jump out of the
window and break his neck in fit of
delirium tremens. As rule, the great
est crimes-murder, bloodshed and v,o-
lence-are not committed by these per-
sorS; they are too much absorbed in
their own sensations to pay attention
to anything else. and, to use a common
expression, they are nobody's enemy
but their own.
Then there are very many men, not
habitual tipplers, who still can not be
described as leading temperate lives.
They drink and get drunk with their
companions in q spirit OF conviviality,
and ought not to be claSSed as ine-
briates, though, as a matter of fact,
they are, not infrequently, very drunk
indeed. Good company, so called. is
to them the direct channel of tcmpta-
ton, and one which they hardly ever
pass without entering therein. Num-
bers of our best werkmen, mechanics,
laborers. ETC., indulge in intoxication,
and many of them regularly devote the
Saturday night to this sort of excess.
Nor can it be questioned that it is
among these men that most of the cases
of manslaughter, bloodshed, violent as
saults and so on arise. They get drunk
in company, are quarrelsome in their
cups, or, as the French say, they have
''the bad wine in them;" a fight ensues,
and one of them receives severe, often
fatal, injuries, or they are disorderly,
resist the police, and Imprisonment is
the consequence; or the man will 90
home three parts intoxicated and kick
his wife within an inch of her life, or
kill his child outright Moreover. very
many accidents by rail and in factories
are not infrequently due, directly or
indirectly, to intemperance. When a
man has been drinking for couple of
days his nerves are unstrung, his tenn
per is irritable, his memory is often at
fault; he neglects some of his usual pre-
cautions; a sudden danger presents it.
self, he loses his head altogether, and
some terrible catastrophe ensues.
There is also a certain per- centage of
drunken and disorderly cases which
occur in our large cities, more Par leu
larly during the Christmas and New
Years holidays. They consist of young
men who have come from the country
''to see life" as they express it; of col
legians, military students, etc. They
are probably unused to strong drink,
and, having more money than wisdom,
they drink till they become excited and
violent; scuffle follows, the policemen
are knocked about, and night in the
station is followed by ten dollar fine
the next morning. They have received
a lesson and retire, too glal if by any
arrangement they have succeeded in
preventing their names and addresses
being published. These young men are
neither inebriates nor tipplers, nor do
they habitually lead Incorporate lives.
Their escapades are mostly due youth
and animal spirits; they represent
'wild OATS in fact, not very admira-
BILE product, indeed, but differing in ev-
cry conceivable respect from the settled
vices before referred to. There will
probably always be g. certain number of
silly youths who will appear on the
scene to commit the same follieS in the
same proportion, and who will be dis
posed of in the same way. but they have
nothing in common with the other class
es.--BTOOkIg71 EGqie.