Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-16
RESPONSE
By MT. HI. G. Shepard Io Protest From sSIndfgnant Carriage uakers.o

find an account of indignation meeting held by the carriage workmen of New Haven on account of statement made by me at the carriage builders convention in Boston on October 22d last.
 The offensive statement in full was that ethe workingmen of New Haven spend four thousand dollars every day over the bars for drink, which would build at least two good cottages, or six hundred cottages annually. In the United States nine hundred million dollars are spent over the saloon bars for drink-a sum so large that we cannot grasp it, and can only get feeble idea of it by supposing that a person had commenced at the birth of Christ to throw away one dollar each minute, and had continued so to do down to the present time, without stopping to eat, drink or sleep except on Sunday. He would not have thrown away so large a as we spend as a nation every year for drink. And should this money be spent for the necessaries of life there would be boom in business right away" This is what I did say in Boston. and I have no apology to make for so doing. The estimated amount of money we spend for drink as a nation was obtained from the official reports of the in ternal revenue officers.
 Now for the proof of the statement First I will introduce the following letter in regard to the present number of saloons in New Ha- ven:
 NEW HAVEN Nov. 17, 1885.
 alR; SHEPARD: In reply to your inquiry I would town of New Haven, from January 1st to date, i91; beer licenses. $; and druggists licenses, 36.
 Yours, etc, HIRAM JACOBS,
 Chairman Board of County Commissioners.
 NIT. Jacobs also made the statement that four thousand dollars was too low an esti- mate for the amount spent daily for drink in Nay1 P1,4J o4 .l.. ourselves. To the 491 liquor licenses should be added the six beer licenses, which makes 497. From this number subtract 36 hotels and groceries, so-called Out many of them are nothing more than drinking places), leav- ing 461 saloons. which all will admit are SUD- ported by the working classes The rich, ''tony" drinkers get their supplies at the ho teis and frst-elass groceries, and it is not so easy to estimate the amount they use, but we have reason to believe they are not behind any other class in the community either in amount or quality.
 Now comes the question of the daily aver age receipts of these saloons The lowest es- timate l have yet heard mentioned is ten dol lars each. They certainly cannot pay for their licenses, stock, rent and incidental ex- penses, and support themselves and families, on much less amount. But to be sure and get it low enough, we will take nine dollars as the average daily receipts of each saloon.I St,lt more than I stated.
 Now wouldn't have anyone think that we here in New Haven are more incorporate than people in other places. for are not, as a comparison of our population with that of the whole country, and of the amount we spend for drink with the amount spent by the nation, clearly proves I will say fur ther that the carriage workmen of New Ha- ven are as temperate as any class of work men, and those employed in the wood de- partment are the most temperate of any I know. But the facts remain: 1st. that this large amount of money is daily spent for drink; 2d, that eight out of every ten per sons in the almshouse are working people, brought there directly or indirectly by drink; Sd, that eight out of every ten persons in prison are working people, brought there di- rectly by drink; 4th that eight out of every ton persons arrested by the police are arrest ed on account of drink; 9th, that the homes of workngmen s where extreme poverty has cases made destitute by drink; and 9th, that large part of the cost f supporting the almshouse, the prison and police is borne by When ws 5af house TeIG is. a a t shf . sttsr when our employer pays the taxes on his business. Every man who does not drink pays at least ten dollars annually on account of some one else who does drink. Sixty six million bushels of grain are destroyed annually in the manufacture of drink; and the five hundred thousand men engaged in the traffic are, together with their families, supported by the people who drink In view of these facts, can anyone say that one main cause of the poorer condition of the people is not drink! Or can anyone deny that there would be boom in busi ness if this amount of money were spent for the necessaries and luNuries of life, in stead of for "that which is not bread and which satisfeth not?''
 .0fI fI, Ia1l ,,yo nic last summer, at which they used three hundred kegs of lager, while one of the most conspicuous banners they carried had inscribed on it, ''Our childr Il cry for bread" I think they would not have cried so hard if the beer money had been spent for bread and given to them.
 In conclusion I have only to thank the two hundred @ carriage makers for the favor they did me by their terrible resolu- tions-for if you wish to benefit man, then heap upon him uncalled-for abuse-and to ask that all publications which gave circulation to the article against me may also publish this, my reply. Il. G. SHEPARD.
 Nov. IS, 1885.
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