The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-02-19
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Boafosts' Wine ard Spirit Circular, q
whisky paper. in a recent number, says
'sThere is certainly . class of minor
crimes that are generally committed BY
people under the influence of intoxicants,
such as assault, disorderly conduct, etc..
but the vast majority If serious GRIMM
atty, such IS murder, arson, forgery. lar
ceny, embezzlement etc., is committed
either BY total abstainers, or by Grimm
ais who, while they are actually in the
commission Of crime, would be bright
and shining lights In any temperance So
ciety." Now why did not the editor 10
the above case deny In toto that drunken
people ever commit crimes, and assert
that all the crimes in the world are com.
United by sober people? He might u
we'll. for it would have been believed just
Is quickly. Now let as see what the
facts are by the light of judicial author.
tiles. Sir Matthew Hale, Chief Justice
of England. many years ago said: 'Fol
twenty years, by due observation I have
found that II the murders, manslaugh-
tiers, the burglaries and robberies. the
riots and tumults, the adulteries, forni'
cations, rapes and other enormities thai
have happened in that time were divided
into I've parts, four Of them have beer
the issue and product of excessive drink
ing"
Chief Baron Kelley, of the Queens
Bench, England, said: ''Two thirds Of
the crimes which come before the courts
Of law in this country-England-art
occasioned chiefly by intemperance. >
The Inspector of English prisons says
81 am within the truth when state thai
in four cases out of five where an Offense
has been committed, intoxicating drinl
has been one of the causes DR.. Har-
ris states s'that of seventeen cases OF
murder separately examined by him
fourteen were instigated by Intoxicating
drinks. Attorney General Palmer, Of
Pennsylvania, said few years ago
''Ninety- five per cent. of the crime .com-
United in Lucerne county was due tC
whisky Chief Justice Noah Davis, Of
New York, recently said: ''The habits
of intemperance are the chief cause Of
crime is the testimony of all judges OF
large experience" Moreover, the same
Justice says: ''I'he enormous expenses
brought upon the people by the trial and
punishment of crimes are therefore
mainly the legitimate consequences Of
the sale and use of liquors." He con-
tinues: '.Our common schools in the
whole country are estimated to cost
eighty millions of dollars annually; OuI
intemperance in its crimes, evils and
miseries, and for restraint, punishment
and relief, costs more than thousand
millions" In the face of these facts,
why should paper seek to mislead the
people? For no other reason than that
it is whisky paper trying to bolster up
bad cause.
ttt
THE SIMPLICITY OF CHRIsT's teaching
has been the marvel of the centuries.
No other teacher has expressed such pro-
found truths so simply yet SO grandly.
scientific" men like to praise Herbert
Spencer for his philosophic learning.
Yet how pedantic appears his style of
expression when compared with the
Great Teacher. A single illustration will
make this plain. Spencer says: ''Evolu-
ton is a change from an indefinite, inco-
herent homogeneity, to definite, ceher-
ent heterOgeneity. through continuous
differentiations and integrations." Jesus
says: ''What shall it profit man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul; or what shall a man give in ex-
change for his soul?'' Each is speaking
of great question. Certainly the lat
ter is much the greater. and yet how
much simpler it is expressed. Jesus
treats of the questions of forgiveness,
hypocrisy, honesty. judgment, almsgiv-
ing, repentance. trust, faith, love, in that
plain, practical way which leaves no
doubt as to his meaning. Then again
he uses the most familiar objects about
him as illustrations of the great truths
he would teach. The 'fowl of the air.
is made to illustrate Gods providential
and fatherly care over his people. ITEM
p0ral wealth" is made to illustrate the
value of the soul. The ''lost pearl" il
the value in which the Kingdom
of Heaven is held, when once its wealth
is understood. And SO through all his
teachings. simplicity everywhere abounds
The PROPHET Ezekiel. in the fifth
chapter of his prophecy, foretells the de-,
of Jerusalem. The prophecy
was written at least 600 years B. c., and
in it he describes the sufferings that
should come upon the people in the form
of famine, sword, pestilence, and at last
t. ~voo. m