Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-23
FER IN BELGIUM.
thinking Whisky Has Done for
10 Thrifty and Industrious
People.

&c nre -eminently beer country,
u Il. h h. results is told by writer in
u NV, mD of The Weekly Censor, of Los
lsSI Ca. who speaks from familiar
y o,,seryation. He says:
Al i,' ma appears to be the head center
ss, ,'anness and drunken poverty and
l'N' Al, drinks are free and untaxed
4 l;uuors of all kinds and tobacco
lh "hean. 1t is little country about
s;ge of Los Angeles County and
t ,ie 400 people. The drink there is
,;ve and gin. In the year 1850 there
3 ii n97 dramshops; in 1870 there were
(''V% IN 1873 there were 1875, 200. and
o. ara are 100000, more than half as
n ,eA in the whole United States. One
s a. - for every "A of the population,
no, ronne! France has one FOR every
u land one for every 145; the United
nns for every $50, California one for
an M and San Francisco one for
mosbons increase under low license,
i 'l and free rum. 1t seems to
l;ttIe difference. Those who drink
aar will drink more next year, if it is
.' 81" and the children of drinkers
A sarlier and more than their fathers,
come drunkards earlier if they drink
There is probably no instance of
fbons decreasing much in number,
where they are prohibited or where
have so thoroughly ruined town or
1 that the people have all left or
and them one or two deadfalls will
rob travellers.
1s7G the writer was some time in
mn The workingmen came on board
d work every day loaded with private
Of gin in addition to the demijohns
|ht by their boss. In gang Of TWEEN
to thirty men one was detailed about
time to serve out gin to the rest.
lay one or two men would be
he'd out drunk and asleep somewhere
bere were good many men more or
rink always. When this was COM
"a of the merchants said, yes, we
it. 1t is always SO, and We cannot
it We have to give them gin right
or they would not work at all. 1t is
ly annoying and expensive, but We
ii help it.
|ories were told of the horrible dens of
Ety in Antwerp, and public places of
" where exhibitions of obscenity sur
4 ANYTHING else of the kind in the
except, perhaps, San Francisco.
Antwerp Cathedral has in its tall spire
lDly the most perfect system of musical
in the world. At intervals every day
pour forth over the sinful city the
est symphonies of heavenly music
bply few steps from it is the filthy
er called the Rag, famous the world
pmong sailors for its record of infa-
vice and squalor.
ever among the seaport people of the
did We ever see SO many deformed,
Jed, bloatea, crippled, goggle-eyed,
eyed, tic-looking wrecks of men;
so many who looked as if they had
wrecked in a railroad disaster, blown
mine or steam-engine, or escaped
l,lnatic asylum. Never such large
rtiou OF drunken men among the
rs. We we're kept twelve days wait
it'll splendid fair wind, long March
ly gale, taking i'll some ballast which
American seaport could have been
board in twenty-four hours. And
cause when forty or fifty tons came
Eiie the men would go ashore and
flom one to two days before they
discharge it. And no men could be
DIDO otherwise.
bat vas and is what people, once
the most industrious, thrifty, honest,
capable i'll the world, have come to.
We have already large class of people
bre no better here. And unless we
prohibition we shall get where Bel.