St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-12
ENGLISH TEMPERAN0E REFORM.


Some statistics have lately been given
which show that in>this country we expend
on drink annually some 100000 900, and
that in England the annual expense for the
same article is less than $4,000 900. This
is a satisfactory showing in at least one re-
spect, and that is, that we are not to be out
done by the Britishers in the industry of
drinking whisky. 1t is also shown that in
Great Britain, the amount spent for "booze"
is yearly growing smaller, while 1t is increas
ing in this country. This may be owing to
the fact that immigration to this
country from the old world is on the
increase. Possibly large share of the Brit
ish tipplers and drunkards are being shipped
TO the United States. We know that there is
much complaint that paupers are being sent
here by the English authorities, and it is well
known that the words pauper and drunkard
are often synonymous. Our annual bill for
tipping may perhaps be explained then on
hither, and that, and by this means the an
nual consumption of spirits in Great Britain
is decreasing. Possibly they manage
things over there better than We
do here, with reference to the pre-
vention Of drunkenness. Lately In
London there has been violent controversy
over a proposal to give dinners to poor
children. A Mr.. Barnet, who spends most
of his time in ministering to the poor of the
east end of the English metropolis, and who
may be supposed to know what is needed by
the INDECENT, strongly opposes the proposed
free dinners to pauperized children. He
thinks that the cry of hungry children should
not be needed, for the reason that it may re-
strain the fathers from drink. Here
may be another reason why
the consumption of intoxicating liquors is
decreasing in Great Britain. The starving
children of the drunkard are allowed to go
hungry so that their clamor may induce
their parents to spend more for bread and
less for whisky. That method of reform has
not been thought of over here, and it may be
that because we have not thought of 1t, and
adopted it, drunkenness is on the increase
among US. Fortunately the English secret
of temperance reform is now divulged, and
it will be the fault of our philanthropists
if the humiliating condition con-
times, in which this country is increasing
its crop of inebriates every year, while that of
our English rival is growing less. In resort
ing to this method of reforming the fathers
by starving the children, some additional
means to the same end will be suggested,
thus, there should be rigid legislation against
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families, because in the case of men without
wives or children, there can be no method of
reaching them under this new system.
Drunkards should be encouraged to
have as many children as possible
so that their cry may be great when
they demand bread. The more clamorous
the cry for bread the more likely is it that it
will be heard. 1t is pretty tough old soak
who will not listen when he has dozen or a
score of his own starving chicks calling after
him for needed sustenance. The principle
involved is something like that adopted in
some countries in which there are dangerous
wild animals. A kid is selected, one taken
fresh from the side of the
mother is preferred, and carried out
in the forest and fastened to stake in some
lonely place. Then the little thing, after
little begins to bleat in its terror and its
hunger whereby the attention of the beasts
of prey is attracted. They come, they pounce
on it, they rend its throat and drink It's
blood, and are shot in the midst of their
feast by the ambuscaded hunters. The sys-
TEN is one which tends to rid country of
beasts of prey and drunkards but it is little
hard on the kids.