New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-21
LOW LICENSE--HIGH TAXES
WHAT THE SALOONS COST THE STATE

WHAT TIE SALOONS COol iib ciAlG
STRIKING FACTS FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS
THE SALOONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THREE
QUARTERS OF THE TAXES FOR PRISONS
AND CHARITIES WHAT HILLS
VETO COST
Burke the murderer, whose horrible mode of
committing his crimes has taken his own name, in
his confession states that only once did he feel
any restraint of conscience That was when he
was about to kill an infant child. The babe
looked up and smiled in his face. butt said he,
81 drank a large glass of brandy, and then had
no remorse"
The Massachusetts, State Board Of Charities re-
ports: "The proportion of crime traceable TO this
great vice dntemperance) must be set down as
heretofore, at not less than four-ffths"
committee of the House of Commons of
Canada reports that out of 2s,2s0 commitments
TO the jails of Ontario and Quebec during three
years 1896 were made for drunkenness or for
crimes perpctrated under the influence of drink
Judge Noah Davis, in pamphlet on intempcr-
nnce and crime states as the very lowest estimate
that one-haf of all the crime of this country and
of Great Britain is caused by the incorporate use
of intoxicating liquors; and that of the crimes in
volving personal violence, certainly three fourths
chargeable 10 the same cause"
The Charity Organization Society's reports of
over 300, 900 cases of restitution investigated in
this city show that from Is to so per cent of
restitution and pauperism is due to the saloons
Mayor Hewitt in his last annual message says:
A visit to the great charitable institutions main
tanned by the city containing population of over
ID, 600 persons) will convince the most sceptical
observer that the chief cause of crime, sickness
and poverty, which fill these institutions with
their tenants is to be found in excessive indulgence
in intoxicating liquors.
Statistics prove that the saloons responsible
for at least three-quarters of the enormous sum
which the taxpayers Of this State pay annually
for the support of prisons, reformatories, poor
houses asylums and hospitals and for the main
tenancc of the police and criminal courts
Look at the figures taken from the report of the
State Board of Charities and the Session Laws of
1887:
Paid for State charitable and reforma-
tory institutions $500. s12,574,o74 CT
Paid for outdoor relief OF hospitals 150,524 81
Paid for the support Of county poor
houses and city almshouses 2,01O,124 GS
door relief {. 4oo6o 90
Paid for the support Of homes and
Paid for for" the support Of hospitals ss9G 6s5 90
Paid for the support of dispensares 15O524 90
Appropriations for State Prisons 2,109.050 90
sc5,o29 G63 Oo
At least three-quarters Of this enormous ex-
pense was caused by the saloons. How much did
they pay to the people of the State, in 1897?
S2,095, 224 30. Less than one-ninth of what they
cost
UHE SALOONS IN ACCOUNT WITH THE PEOPLE
OF THE STATE OF NETWORK.
For the Year 1887
Debit. Credit.
For the sup License
port of Pris- fees paid zoos, pea 90
ODs, Aims
houses Re-
fOrmatores,
Hospitals,
o. Of the Balance
s1s,92o,24s s1s,o22 ,24s 90
THE SALOONS IN ACCOUNT WITH THE CITY OF
NETWORK.
For the year 1887.
Hfglires taken from the City Record)
Debit. Credit.
Cost of main Amount Of II
tanning Police fees
Cost OF Police
Courts. Dis
trict- Attorney
and Criminal
Judges 421100
Cost OF Chart
ties and Cor
rcciions l.. 2343,37a
Cost Of Asvlums
and Reforma- Balance against
tories 1,142,052 the saloons, 81 ,136034