The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-03
A Presiding Judge Gives Graphic
Description of the Evils of
the Saloons in Chicago.

e44S S0A00AA0 1A 0A4AG0SOs
In recent number of the Chicago
Inter Ocean. the presiding Judge of one
Of the courts gave this picture of the
situation in that $500 High License
city:
"You may ransack the pig holes
all over the city and country, and look
over such annual reports as are made
up, but they will not tell halt the truth.
Not only are the saloons of Chicago re-
sponsible for the cost of the police
force, the Is justice courts, the Bride
we'll, but also for the criminal courts,
the county Jail, great portion OF
Joliet, the long murder trials, the Cor
oner's Office, the morgue. the poor
house, the reform school, the madhouse.
Go anywhere you please, and you will
find almost invariably that whiskey is
at the root of the evil. The gambling.
houses of the city and the bad.houses
of the city are the direct outgrowth Of
the boon companions of drink. Of all
the thousands of prostitutes Of Chicago,
the downfall Of almost every one can be
traced to drunkenness on the part of
their parents or husbands, or drunken
ness on their own part.
"Of all the boys in the Reform
School at Pontiac, and in the various
reformatories about the city, 95 per
cent are the children of parents who
died through drink, or became Grim
inals through the same cause. Look at
the defalcations: full 80 per cent of
them come about through drink and
dissipation. Go into the divorce courts:
fully 90 per cent of the divorces come
about through drink, or drink and 4
adultery both. Of the insane or de
meuted cases disposed of in the court
here every Thursday, a moderate esti-
mate is that 10 per cent are from al.
coholism and its effect. saw it esti.
mated the other day that there were
10000 destitute boys in Chicago who
are not confined at all, but are running
at large. l think that it is a small es-
Innate. Men are sent to prison for
drunkenness, and what becomes of their
families? The County Agent and the |
Poorhouse provide for some. 1t is |
direct expense to the community. |
Generally speaking. these families 60 |
to destruction. The boys turn out
thieves, and the girls and mothers gen.
orally resort to the slums. The sand.
baggers, murderers and thugs generally |
of to-day who are prosecuted in the |
police courts and the criminal courts
are the sons of men who fell victims to
drink. The percentage in this case is
fully s. per cent.
Il have studied this question for
years, and have passed upon Grim inal
cases for years, and know whereof
speak. This saloon that Saloon the
other 'saloon'-saloons, saloons, sa-
looms figure constantly and universally
in the Anarchist trials. Conspirators
met 10 saloons; dynamite was discussed
in saloons; bombs were distributed over
saloons armed revolutionists were
drilled above, under, or in the rear of
saloons treason made designation in
saloons, and time and time again wit
nesses say, we went to- such and such
"a saloon for wine or BEER There is
not country under the sun in which
Turks SO much treason, revolution and
murderous treaty as in our saloon of
the United States, and notably in all
large cities. These saloon pests har-
Dor thieves, thugs, house breakers,
Anarchists, robbers and murderers.
Nine-tenths of the laW-breaking in
America is hatched in saloons, and the
admitted fact is palliated by the axiom
that saloons are headquarters for town,
city and even national election gerry
Wandering. The liquor counter is the
scaffold on which a half.hundred beau
tiful, vital American things are assassi.
mated. aud on which scores of horrid
public plaques are glori6ed."