The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-08
OMEN'S COMPLIMENTS 70 MEMO.
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EDITOR BULLETIN:-
After concluding his remarks upon
Ohio prohibitionists, The Liberal
then turns bis attention to the prohl-
bition platform. He proposes to ex-
anime it as he says, without preJu-
dice and in the light of reason, logic
and statistical facts. He challenges
the prohibition statement that "the
traffic in alcoholic beverages is the
principal cause of all crime He
takes statistics from the peniten-
tlares in Maine, Maryland and New
York. He tells US that out of AZ
convicts sent to the penitentiary in
Maine in 1882, l8 of them were
prohibitonists In 1880, Maine had
population OF G4S,OO0. Hence
Maine had only one convict for over
ID, 400 of her population for the year
1882. Not bad that for prohlbi-
ton State! viii Memo give us
liquor State with as good a record
OF the AZ convicts Is were total alb
stainers and of course the rest were
either moderate drlnkers or drunk
ards. In other words on y AZ per-
cent of the convlcts came from the
ranks of the prohibitionists and 81
percent from the liquor men. But
that is not all, Maine in 1884 had a
direct, straight vote on prohlbltlon.
The result was 20, ,783 votes for pro-
hihition and only 23.Sll against.
We may be sure that The full liquor
vote was pooled Hence we see that
on test vote the prohihitionlsts ex,
ceeded The liquor men in the ratio OF
to l.
How about those ~ convlcts
The LIQUOR men furnished 1 times
more convicts, although the prohlbl-
tionists are over three times more
numerous. Pretty good proof, thai
liquor is the fruitful source OF crime
The article from The Liberal ther
points out that in 1881 IN Maryland
out of a total of 532 convicts only 4
we're Incorporate drinkers! That is
a remal kable statement. | do mo-
like to object to it, but certainly II
the light of what is said further on
viz. that statistics from over lO'
penitentiaries prove that - re'cen
of the criminals. claim tuut the u.s.
of liquor has been their ruin. ln tn
light of that statement, it seems t.
me. Mr.. Editor, that somehow thOs
. MARYLAND statistics are cooked. Bu
suppose them all right. We still
have the fact given US that men VIII
use liquor Yield 4l5 con yicts, Will
from the ranks of prohibition com
only III. No failure of the clair
made by prohibition, in the Marylan
figures.
In New York, so Nemo's articl
tells us, there were in Auburn 70
prohibitionists among the convlcts
and 632 moderate drinkers an
drunkards, who were convicts. Ju;
what comfort Memo found in thes
facts it is hard to tell.
F., Nelno's article then goes on to sa
that reports from over 100 peniteI
tiares show that 20 percent of th
criminals are prohibltionists, 20 pc
cent say that they were ruined B
drink, and 80 percent claimed to
only moderate drinkers. In 9TH
words liquor users furnished 70 pc
cent of the convicts, and this accor
= ing to Nemo's own statistics. l.
us see: according to Nemo's artic
s. the one thing, VIZ, drink, yielded
s many criminals as came from u
G ranks of the prohibitionists Put
another way, it took all the Grim
for which the prohibition peor
could be indicted aud convicted
equal the one simple cause-wh
key. Among causes, whskey tn
certainly has a huge monopoly
making.
Where did the % percent OF
convicts ruined hy drink come froI
~ From the prohibitlonlsts or moder'
drinkers? There is only one answ'
y They come frnm the ranks OF
4 moderate drinkers. Anyone
= auainted with drinking men kno
y that they never will admit that tl
are anything but moderate drlI
ers" until they have become helpl'
sots, and hence very little reliar
can be placed upon the words of
30 percent of moderate drink
criminals. In 1890, the Supre
Court Of the United States in rend
ing decision said:
/. "By the general concurrence
Opt ion of every civilized and CHI
tion community, there are
sources of crime and misery to
ciety equal to the dramshop.
The statistics of every State sho'
e. greater amount of crime and mis-
attributable to the use of ard
spirits obtained at these retail liq
saloons than to any other source.
Evidently in the opinion of
Supreme Court of the United Sta
liquor Is, as prohibitionists put
1.-The principal cause of all erin
i. paupprisn and insanity"
--- Neno's article next takes up
pauper qne>.a Il. He admits
out of a tviaf oi $4,000 paupers
tho ITnit 4 States, liauOr N