The Irish standard., 1888-03-31


Loss Of e; 6G5,7s2 bushels of grain =. 49,, -,
Medical attendance and medicines
used in sickness caused by
drink 80. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1885, SIS
wozknen ...,.................... 10,ooo,ooo
Cost OF 6. S99 insane etc i, caused by
drink ................ 1915. 800
Cost Of So 1l0 panpers ............... 5,9l1, 900
Loss of labor Of these L,aupers...... l7,7S2, 00O
Cost Of &c, ISL p isoners. 6,94S, 300
Loss Of labor of these prisoners 1871 800
Courts, police. Jurors. witnesses etc. 15COO,OC0
Total direct and Indirect cost OF in
toxicsting drinks. ............ 81, 721 ,742, 100
Is this not appalling? Why, my
friends, if it was not for this worst OF
all habits this world would be a para
disc. Mention any form of crime you
may and I will trace the cause Of it 10
saloon. A young man is working for
good wages. He drinks, he leads fast
life, he tinds that he can't make both
ends meet. What Goes he do? He
steals from bis employer, is found out,
and he goes to prison. a burglary is
to be planned. 1t is concocted III Il sa-
loon. A murder is committed; whiskey
craZed the brain which m,sdirected the
hand which pulled the trigger. Name
any kind of lawlessness you may, and I
will trace the beginning Of that lawless-
ness to the saloon. Young men keep
away from the saloons 1t can do you
no possible good, it will do you meal
culable harm. Are you not ashamed
to meet and associate with the fire.
quenters of those places? Tt you GO to
those places you must recognize your
pards when you meet them on the
strickland OH, nay! what q greeting
you will meet. A tattered. hlear. eyed,
whiskey perfumed Individual comes up
to you, threws his arms about you,
slobbers all over you, actually tries to
embrace you. Does 1t not make your
blood chill in your veins to meet sucla a
creature, l cannot call him man? SO
long as you continue keeping such
company just so long will you be poor,
dependent and dissipated. The evil Df
incompetence has grown to disgusting
aud alarming proportions. ITO change
THAT habit is no tritling undertaking
bat it is something which this sensible
movement inaugu1ated nearly fifty
years ago in ireland and twenty years
since iii oar own state is gradually but
surely accomplishing. 1t is only few
years ago that to have liquor on every
occasion, WAS The rule. People have
haen made to think different now.
Thanks to enlightened public opinion
and moral education we ars just as
surely changing the habits of our peo-
pla as the SUD shines in the heavens
Health, moral worth, financial stand
ing. everything, urges lis to be temper
ate. Why are the healthy Young men
of our day? Who are the ones whom
the Life insurance companies desirs tc
place risks nponP Are they the mod.
crate drinkers, or the immoderateo nes2
No, they are the total abstainers. In
fact there is no better life insurance
company than a total abstinence so
ciety. The Crusaders of st. Paul have
been organized nearly six years. Dur
that time hundreds Of young men have
belonged to the society. In six years
hue two members have died.
Show nue. another society if you can,
other than a temperance society, with
4. record like this. There is another
phase Of this question which is too
much neglected by orr people. We
have too few women societies. No one
can imagine the amount of good work
that is being done by the ladies in this
holy cause. Mothers have a great re-
spcnsibility in this work. AS is the
mother, SO is the child. to a great de-
gree at least. The influence which q
women has lie greater than they taem-
selves imagine. [ would like to see a
woman's Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety in ever parish. Our Protestant
women are doing grand, a noble
work in this cause. They go about it
in the right way. They reach the
hearts OF the men and boys through the
stomach. This is the shortest, mosa
direct and most effect,lal route. Once
secured, they interest MIN in this
cause, which should be dear to every
woman's heart, and 1t is wonderful
with what success the women meet
when they go about doing good. ALI
honor to the good women who enlist
in this movement. With their help the
battle is nearly won. There is a great
change being wrought in this move
ment, an, it is now the foremost ques-
ton Of the day. 1t is being agitated
all over the country. Our own grand
State has followed the ADVICE of other
States, and has set an example for
older and mere populous ones. Will
you wait until the work is all done, or
will you join this Valiant army of sol.
diers who know no defeat2 Come in
before 1t is too late. We are running
the enemy down. We have run his Ii
cense up, and we will keep on the track
until avArv man women and child in