The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-03
BR EvlTlES.

offer medal to any one who scores the
bad average OF being drunA every night.
In Calcutta, India, after Temper
ance address by Canon Wilberforce,
eight hundred Mohammedans and Hin
dus signed the pledge.
THE sale of intoxicating liquors has
been forbidden at the restaurants at
tached to the railroad stations in Vic
toria, Australia. The railroads are
State institutions
EIGHT different brewers in Cork, Ire.
land, have amassed fortunes exceeding
50, DOC, 600 each, and most of tho money
has come from the men who buy by the
glass or pint.
AM so borrified at intemperance and
the consumption of alcohol in this coun-
try that sometimes feel like giving up
every thing, and going forth in holy
crusade, preaching to all men: Beware
of the enemy of the race."-Dr. Andrew
Clark, Physician to Queen Victoria.
The official journal of the Belgian
Patriotic league against alcoholism
gives serious epitome of disastrous re.
suits arising from the expenditure in
one year in Belgium of 1925, 900, 600
francs on alcoholic beverages Among
these consequences are so per cent of
hospital inmates from drinking, with
prisons, asylums and mendi-city depots
filed with the drunken. Since 1872,
taking into consideration the increased
population, insanity has augmented As
per cent; crime. "a per cent; suicides.
SO per cent; mendicity depots and vaRa.
bondage. $50 per cent.
THE prevalence of drunkenness in
Russia is said to have become so great az
to attract the attention of all Europe In
Odessa alone during tho past year 800
deaths have been directly due to the use
Of intoxicants. The Government re-
fuses to do any thing toward checking
the evil for fear of losing the revenue
from the manufacture and sale of alco-
holic liquors. Our new Minister to
Russia, Charles Emory Smith, will set
the wine-drinking aristocrats of st.
Petersburg good example. He turns
his glasses right side up which is upside
down when wine is passed at public ban
quets, and has not tasted intoxicating
liquors in fifteen years.-Union Signal.
British judicial Dicta on Drink.
"Ninety-nine cases out of every hun.
dred are caused by drink. Judge
Erskine.
IF it were not for drink you (jury)
and I would have nothing to do
Judge Pattison.
''Three-fourths of the cases of crime
have their origin in public houses and
beer shops. Judge Wightman.
The Edinburgh. Journal of Jurispru.
dence says: "Almost every crime has
its origin more or less in drinking."-
Judge Quincy.
If all men could be persuaded from
tho use of intoxicating drinks, the
Office 81 Judge would be . sinecure.
Judge Anderson.
"1ntemperance has destroyed large
numbers of people, and will, at its pres
ent rate of increase, in time destroy the
country itself. "-Justice Grove.
II can keep no terms with q vice that
fills our jails and destroys the comfort
Of homes and the peace of families, and
debases and brutalizes the people OF
these islands. "-Chief Justice Cole.
ridge.
To which We might add the recent de.
cision Of Lord Young at the Glasgow
circuit in the case of Eliza Short
Whose drunkenness and neglect had re-
suited In the death of her child), refus.
ing to hold her criminally responsible,
because there could not be inferred in.
tention to commit the crime, and refus.
ing to hold her condition, though
caused by her own act, sufficient to
make her criminally responsible for the
death OF the child.-Clark Bell, in Mid
ico-L Legal Journal