The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-08
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the community. But the $4,000
paupers in the United States poor
houses and almshouses don't tell all
the tale.
In 1880, the Commissioners of
Correction and Charity for New York
City said in their report:
Many reasons for this painful
and rapidly increasing pauperlsm
among the people have been assigned,
but that which takes precedence
above and beyond all others is the
curse of intemperance. 1t is this
which robs the pockets of the poor
man; it is this which benumbs his
brain and destroys his faculties, and
this which predisposes himself and
his children to fatal disease. 1t is
this which breeds sensuality in all its
protean and disgusting forms, this
which induces shiftlessness and ire
sponsibllity among the masses, and
1t is this which saps the life from
those who would otherwise besheaIthy
and vigorous. The statistics of
almshouses, warehouses, penitentia-
ries, asylums and hospitals all attest
this dark and gloomy fact
What does Memo think of this
work of the liquor traffic? Perhaps
''in the interest of truth and temper
ance" he will tell us the peculiar
benefits derived by the United States
from 21,00O paupers, which he, him
self, admits were made by liquor.
The article, endorsed by Memo,
then takes up the question of in
sanity. 1t states that according to
the census Of 1880 there were 81 1897
insane persons in the United States.
The writer then says that the Super
lntendents of 80 hospitals report
~ percent have become insane from
liquor drinking" As to the percen-
tage, the method adopted is by no
means to be relied upon until we
know how the $50 hospitals" from
which he gives reports, were select
ed. OF one thing we may be sure,
those giving the smallest percentage
against liquor were not sighted.
Nemo's article admits that GAO per-
sons became ''insane from liquor
Drinking That is the direct result,
according 20 Nemo's figures. 1t tells
nothing of the number of men and
women who are continuously "steep-
ed in liquor" until but remnant of
their common sense is left. Those
figures give no idea of the effect
upon the children of so-calIed item
perate drinkers Much less do they
tell us what is the effect upon the
children of those who become Gin
sane from liquor drinking" Memo $
article wasn't written with that OBJ
iect. 1t claims to be written in the
interest of true temperance, but
it really is plausible, patching to-
gether of figures which don't tell
(and were not intended to do SOY
half the truth; the whole written in
the interest of the liquor dealer.
Why didn't Nemo's article give the
figures for idiocy as well as insanity
The United States Census of 1880
enumerated l68, 1882 insane and lido
tic persons. In report to the Mas
sachusetts Commission on Idiocy,
DR.. $. G. Howe states that "out of
of 359 idiots the condition of whose
progenitors was ascertained, SO were
the children of drunkards. But this
does not tell the whole story by any
means. By drunkard is meant a
person who is notorious and habitual
sot N By pretty careful
inquiry as to the number of idiots of
the lowest class whose parents were
known to be temperate persons, it
was found that not one-euarter can
be so considered. 1t wasn't in the
interest of liquor dealers, for whom
the article in The Liberal was writ
ten, to tell the whole truth. Yet,
with shameless face, we find them
publishing to the world that in one
country Omitted States) as a direct
result of their business they produce
~, 1877 criminals, paupers and insane
persons. They want people to be-
lieve that it is all done 'tin the in
terest of truth and temperance !"
One may well ask what would be the
result if it were in the interest of the
Iiquor-man? When Memo has finish
ed his article in your issue of Aug.
6, with your permission, Mr.. Editor,
| will answer his comments on the