The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-31
GLASGOW.
The Cost and Evil Effects
Of the Liquor Traffic.
FILTH, VICE AND MISERY.
Tribune" Civilization Working
Glasses Industries Sights in
and About the Great City.
GLASGOW.
GLASGOW. MAY 10. 1885.

OLAodOhi NldN III 1907
To the Editor OF THE HERALD:
r The temperance workers in the Uni
| ted Kingdom are very active; and it
certain there is very large field TO
} activity in that direction. A chart o
; card has been prepared, Showing the an
nual expenditure of the United King
dom on intoxicating liquors, compare,
with various other of the chief items o
expenditure in daily life for the ten year
Guiding 1882" 1t reads as follows: In
toxicating liquors, $3.50, 900, 900 for bread
$3.50 900 900; fer butter and cheese, $175,
OOO, 900; for milk, $3.50, 900 900; for sugar
$125, 900 600; tea coffee, cocoa, $500 900.
600; coal for household purposes, SIS,
100000; rent of houses, $3.50 .000, 900; rem
offarms $500, 900 900 ;woollengoods, $3.50,
900, 900; cotton goods, $40 900, 900 ;educa-
ton, $55, 900, 600; linen goods, $50, 200, 900;
Christian missions, S., $50 900. This table
discloses, as the figures will demon
strate, that the money spent for intoxi-
eating liquors in the United Kingdom
is nearly twice as great as the total
amount paid for bread, nearly four
times as much as the cost of butter,
four and half times as much as is
spent for milk; over five times the ex-
pense for sugar; more for drink than
the rem troll of all the farms and homes
in the United Kingdom; about twice the
outlay that there is for wooden, cotton
and linen goods combined; and so on.
Besides this enormous expenditure upon
drink, British subjects in the three
kingdoms pay poor and police rates.
costs of insanity, crime, vagrancy, acct
dents, disease, loss of labor. premature
death, (nearly all more or less directly
traceable to the use of intoxicants,)
which adds at least to the calculation
an additional $500,O00.000, and which
makes the actual loss to the nations
through drink, to exceed the tremend-
Gus sum of $1,000,O0O, 900 yearly. This
figure is something frlghtful to contem-
plate, and yet men. in the face of these
facts keep on drinking, and all the pious
preaching of ministers proves fearfully
Intellectual. Every rise in the duty on
liquor is another lift for the retail dis
penser of this liquid adjunct of hell.
4 trifling duty increase has been added
to whisky lately and the retail dealers
as consequence, have added a half
penny to each glass, thus paying the
duty and leaving tritie over with which
to line the pocket after. Can any per-
son picture the extent and the depth
of misery and vice which these figures
And these are in an enlightened
and liberal country, second only. if 1t is
second, to the United States.
have heard it said, time and again,
and seen it printed until my ewes
would weary of the sight, that if
the young people of Utah could
only go out into the world they
would soon become disguised with
the faith and customs of their fathers.
for the reason that the civilization, the
customs and the religion of others were
superior to those of the people /!
of Utah. l never knew what vice or
depreciation was, never dreamed of the !
misery, and the discord that existed |
until | left Utah, and of the places 1 |
have yet visited Glasgow is without ex-
ception the worst. There may be worse,
(but forbid it Heaven y yet this o'ertops
anything | ever dreamed of Here |
in some quarters is mat |
ter of business. l would be willing to |
take any young man, of reputable char
acter, put him under oath, and then |
agree to have him confess after fifteen !
walk with me in Glasgow, that |
he had seen more vice. more misery,
more degradation, more filth, more pure
vileness than he had seen in
Utah in his whole life. / have travelled |
Utah from one end to the other, and |
been in a position to know of the crime |
and misery of that part of the world and |
as live | never dreamed that such a
could exist as does here In !
the Salt Market, and down any of the |
streets in that vicinity, is to be seen the
depth of vileness of which humanity is
capable. In twenty minutes walk |
saw five fights, not between men, but !
between men and women, woman |
against woman, young woman against |
old. Noone was disposed to interfere,
e-ybody,-men and women,-would |
rush forward and gather about the fight |
ing ones with an eagerness which be- !
trayed a love for the brutality of man.
kind that was disgusting to behold. |
Women, bareheaded and bare legged, |
with faces that looked as though they |
had not seen water for months. Girls !
not yet out of their teens reeling in |
and ogling passers by ; /
others, little more than children them
selves, bearing their own offspring calling
each other vile names, dressed perhaps |
in little else than petticoat, waist, and |
a shawl, and their bare legs, and dirty /
and hardened feet telling that the time /
was long since either stocking or shoe
encased them Amid this riotous scene |
of brawling drunkenness and vice were
great numbers of little children. whose
faces knew as little about soap as their
poor empty little stomachs had any idea
of decent meal. They had nothing on
their feet or heads, and there was much
more hole than whole about the filthy
rags that hung on their poor, little shiv-
ering bodies.
These were the street scenes,
God only knows what vileness and
filth the indoors might disclose,
and this is the Improvement that young
Mormons are to find by gong out and
seeing the world Every night, but partic- !
ularly on Saturday night, these scenes
may be noticed. (In fact. to avoid them
one must avoid the .streets.) But on
Sunday morning the place is quiet and
the PRAYER book and Bible, and the long
and goody-goody face is seen treading
these streets in the direction of one of
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