The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-11-02
NO. 35.
W. 0. y. D.

AOAhAGA III OttiAbAOhP AAHANN4l
New York State has $50 ,0oo, 600
invested in prisons, asylums, hospitals
and alms-houses. New York City
alone has 10000 dram-sbops 10 help
provide the inmates
An aged man living IL East lo2d
street, New York, fell Into the base
ment Of 3ll East lo3d street, on
October I'd, and died shortly after
from the injuries he received The
police say he was intoxicated at the
time.
A farmer living three miles from
Omaha, Neb,, came home drunk 0cto-
Der 5th, lit lamp and upset II Ii his
drunken wanderings around the house.
The building took fire and was burned
to the ground. He escaped without
injury himself, but his wife, 3,Year-
old child, and his hired man, who
were asleep at the time, were burned
TO death,
A man, aged "a, residing near
Tiyoli, went to q parade at Saugerties,
September goth. On his return homo
he was grossly intoxicated and laids
down on the dock. That was the
last seen of him until October 8th,
when his body was found floating in
the river, The eoroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental drowning while
| intoxicated
Mayor Archibald, of Jacksonville,
Florida, speaking recently Of the
rayages of yellow fever in that city,
said "It strikes persons Of alcoholic
habits fatally, The fever is Of very
mild form. The mortality is only
about Is per cent, and taking out tho
deaths of moa addicted 10 the use OF
alcoholic beverages, the mortality
would not exceed five per cent. Two
thirds of the fatality is due to the
fact that persons have been seeas-
toned to the use Of strong drink be-
fore they are attacked by the fever,
and in every such case the patient IN
variably dies, and without reaction
1t is frequent remark ON tho Jack,
sopviIlo streets, that yellow fever is
the best temperance lecture The city
ever had" ." ..#
A timely aud important article ap-
pears in the Ckareh at Home and
Abroad for October, on tho subject
of Temperance Progress in Kansas
The article is, in itself, a complete
and irrefutable answer to the oft
repeated assertion of the opponents Of
prohibition that the prohibitoTy laws
of Kansas are not a practical success.
Among the results of prohibition
already manifest, one of tho most sig
nifcent is the effect upon lmmigra,
ton and the commercial prosperity Of
the State. The most bitter opposition
to the adoption of prohibition came,
in part, from those who professed to
believe that, under such law, tho
progress and development Of tho
State would cease, and general stag
nation and ruin would follow "The
facts" says this writer, fare all the
other way. Hosts Of people arc
coming to the State where the open
saloon is unknown. Families are
seeking our broad tdblelands by the
thousand, Not only The rural dis
triCts, but the cities are filling up
with tho best classes of people. jails
aud police courts arc at a discount.
Even men Of family, who are moderr
ate drinkers themselves, arc bringing
their children into a Stale whore they
can grow up free from liquor temp
tatlon. Churches and sehool-houses
abound everywhere, and all denpmi.
nations are establishing colleges and
academies freely" 1t would be well
TO compare this with the recent state
ment of President Arthur, of the
Liquor Dealers Protective Associa-
tion, that crime was on the increase in
Kansas under prohibiting law, and
the prisons were as full as ever
| Ne'o York Observer,
II would seem that there has been
so much said about intemperance that
there is nothing more to say, But
the horrors Of intemperance have
never yet been fully depicted, No
pencil is black enough 70 paint the
picture aud do IL full justice. II lsa
physical cuFsei II is . mental curse; it
Is a financial curse It is clearly de-
monstrable that no less than nine
hundred millions Of dollars are re.
qaired to take care of the eonseqnen-
! ces that arise from the use Of alco-
holic liquors as beverage OF the
annual cost of the criminal courts,
prisons, iails, penitentIaFles, poor
houses, asylums, and the many other
expenditures for crime and pauperismi
more than seyentY-6Ye per cent. is
the direct outcome of this monster
evil, All this expenditure and waste,
which also includes several millions IN
I loss Of time, in destruction Of grain
and other raw materials, and alto
gether not less than twenty hundred
millions each year goes into and Is
swallowed up in this great gulf of
, wasted strength and material wealth
/, Of the people. But The most
dire and awful wralchcdaess, broken
hearts, blasted hopes, ruined lives,
/, combining and concentrating more
misery than al oihes accumulated
woes or curses ppt together, afe y
part Of the caste that makes Mp lhe
quota that Is fairly chargeable "a lliia
. monster evil, besides killing directly