Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-09
NEW DRINK BILL.
Some of the Points from Ger.
many's Proposed Law
BY Which 1t is Hoped to
Greatly Check the Evil.

Forbidden - Enormous Amount OF
Liquor Consumed in the Empire.
BERLIN, Sept. 9.-The proposed new
law against the abuse of spirituous
liquors has been published in The
Reichsanzeiger. 1t contains twenty
three paragraphs. While paragraph 33
of the trade law formerly left it to the
different federal governments to grant
licenses, the law is now SO changed as
to allow of the granting of license
only III cases where there appears to be
need for a retail liquor shop or for a
saloon. The need of such retail place
or saloon must be shown.
Restrictions.
A license will be refused to any one Of
immoral character, or to people who
may be suspected of using the liquor
bling, prostitution, etc. If the location
as, for instance, near a church-ap-
pears undesirable, the license can also
be refused. Retailers are all dealers
who sell in quantities of less than fifty
liters. and this may be extended to cover
all selling beyond one hundred liters
The retailers cannot sell in quantities Of
less than half liter. A liter is a frac-
tion over a quart
In cities Of over 5 1000 inhabitants the
retail trade in liquors must not be con-
nected with any other kind of trade
| Spirits must not be stored in salesrooms
which serve any other purpose than that
of selling liquor. Excepted from this
are only the drug stores, which may sell
| liquors in sealed and labeled bottles. All
inn and saloon keepers must supply the
| guests with non-spirituous liquors, if
required. and also with eatables as far
as possible. They must keep strict order
in their places. and prevent anything
which may lead to the abuse of alcoholic
drinks The different governments are
permitted to regulate the employment Of
female walters.
The police can forbid the sale of
LIQUORS before 8 q. IN. Thesale of drinks
to minors below the age of sixteen is
forbidden, except in cases where they
are accompanied by grown persons or
while travelling. Inn and saloon keep
ers. as we'll as retail dealers, are for
bidden to furnish liquor to people who
have been convicted of common drunken
ness within three years, also to all in
toxicated persons. They cannot expel a
drunken man from their premises ex-
cept by sending him to his home or to
police station.
Inn and saloon keepers are not allowed
to furnish liquor on credit except i'll
cases where the guest is taking them
with his meals. No claims for liquor
furnished in contravention of his order
can be legally collected.
Common drunkards and people who
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the public welfare or neglect their fami-
lies, can be placed under legal guardian
ship. Such person is legally equal to
a minor. The guardian, or, in his de-
fault, the court can order the detention
of such person in an asylum for inc
briates.
Fines of thirty to sixty marks and i'm
prisonment up to fourteen days may be
imposed upon such persons as violate the
provisions of the above law. A fine up
to one hundred marks, or imprisonment
up to four weeks can be imposed upon
any one who becomes intoxicated while
engaged in work connected with the
saving of life or the prevention of fire,
etc; also, who attempts such work
while drunk except in cases of urgent
need. The same applies to persons en-
gagged in taking care of the health of
Others, such as physicians, nurses, etc.
Some Interesting Statistics.
The Reichsanzeiger, in publishing the
above law, also presents the reasons for
its passage in an exhaustive article COW
ering nearly eleven pages of closely
printed matter. After referring to the
fact that the different laws previously
passed had so far proved insufficient in
stopping the evils Of the abuse of alco
holic drinks, it cites number of scien-
tifiC and statistical authorities. In the
year 1SS9-90 2,216, 1923 hectoliters of pure
alcohol We're consumed in Germany, or
4.64 liters for each man, woman and
child in Germany. OF wine about
IA liters per head were consumed an
nually. The quantity of beer consumed
annually is equal to an average of ninety
liters for each human being in Germany.
The Reichsanzeiger goes on to show that
while the consumption of liquor is not
so great IN Germany as compared with
other countries, it is yet very considera-
BILE. The intemperate use of spirits in
creases the mortality, causes many
cases of sickness, is the main fountain of
pauperism, undermines morality and
ruins the family life.
The cases of chronic alcoholism and
deliiium tremens in Germany which
have been treated in public institutions
have increased from 4,2i2, in 1877, to
l0,360, in 1885. Among the latter mum
Der We're 613 females. Still clearer is the
percentage of such cases treated when
compared with other patients. The al
cohol cases furnished nearly 90 per cent. !
of all the cases treated in the public hos /
pitfalls. The insane asylums received
,-6l4 patients suffering from alcoholic
mania in 1885; 1,2l3 men and 12l women
died of delirium tremens in 1885. OF
the prisoners in German penitentiaries
convicted of murder l6 per cent. used
liquor, and of these again Al per cent
were habitual drunkards. OF those who
committed manslaughter SO per cent. |
were drinkers. Violent assaults We're,
in "a per cent of the cases, committed
by drsnkards; rape by 60 per cent, and
the other crimes varied from 40 to GS
per cent. The crime of perjury showed
the smallest percentage of habitual
drinkers-only 26 per cent.
The article then goes on to state that
with the increase of the use of alcoholic
drinks vice increases and vice versa.
Our present social and political life re-
quires greater mental and physical ef-
forts of each person. The consequent
excitement and strain is q strong in
ducement toward indulgence. 1t is the
duty of the government to meet this
danger as far rs possible. The danger
arising from the sale of liquor in gen
eral stores, the danger TO morality by
female attendance, and the other
reasons for the different paragraphs of
the law are exhaustively treated. The
law Is carefully drawn. and i'm the event