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Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
CRIME IN NEW YORK STATE.
More Than Seventy-six Per Cent. Is Trace
able to Liquor.

More Than Seventy-six Per Cent. Is Trace
able to Liquor.
The Voice says: "We have Just been
favored by the Hon. Frank Rice, secre-
tary of New York state, with a copy of
his annual report ON the statistics of
crime for the year ended Oct. 81, 1890.
1t Is an especially interesting and valu-
able document. since it gives, for each
county and city of the largest state of
the Union, the number of crimes for
which persons were convicted by courts
of special Sc sions-that is, county crimi-
nal courts, C-sy police courts, etc.-dur-
ing the time named.
From the figures furnished by the Sec
retary of state The Voice prepared tables
showing the relation of drink to crime.
These tables proved conclusively that
trifie over rs per cent. of the crime in
New York state is directly or indirectly
traceable to drink. Under drunkenness
they combined the convictions for sin
toxication" and ''habitual drunkards.'
Thirty-four thousand six hundred an
five convictions came under this head.
1t should be remembered that criminal
courts are lenient to ''drunks" unless
they are dangerous cases, and hence that
the number of convictions for drunken
ness, as shown in the table, does not rep
resent the part drink plays in the bust
ness of criminal courts as well as the
number of arrests would.
Their table ;ives All convictions for
disorderly conduct. 464 convictions of
disorderly prisons, 292 convictions of
breach of the peace, 223 inmates of dis
orderly houses, l4l for keeping disorder
ly houses, 905 misdemeanors, etc.
Assault is credited with 4,40i convic-
tions. Under assault are included 622
cases of affray, but not 332 cases of
cruelty to animals, S4 cruelty to children.
30 resisting an officer. etc.
In the 8,43S crimes headed vagrancy
are included GA tramps.
The total of these liquor crimes is
1883, or 1852 per cent. Of 63, 724, the
total number of convictions reported.
This leaves IA, S66 crimes not chargeable
to liquor, which include 4,034 petit lar
ceny, 485 violation of excise laws, 3O4
malicious mischief, 566 violation of
health laws, 5,l56 violation of o1di-
nances, etc.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
More Testima0y About that
Paris s.Christian' Church.
PARIS, KY, Jan. "a 1892.

PARIS, KY, Jan. "a 1892.
DEAR SIRAThe man who
wrote that card against you in
Col. Craddock's paper, is Mr..
-, a deacon in my church,
the Christian church at Paris, and
who sits several seats in front of
me.
Last year he was running for
office, and he went around from
saloon to saloon buying votes and
treating anybody and everybody
who would drink with him. My
son had not touched liquor for
more than a year, and my son-in-
law for more than three years; yet
made them drunk, and
they have been drunk ever since.
Before this they were working
every day it was fit to work, and
they can always get work tor they
are both good carpenters.
My daughter and myself sup
mort the children the best We can,
sewing. / know it is sin, but !
have prayed God to bring down
Judgment on this old hypocrite,
who sits up in church looking SO
pious and good. | can not write
very plain and 1 get a friend to
copy 1t for me
Your friend,
Mrs WILLIAM b,
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
MIR. Florence's Advice.

Florence, the actor, once gave some
advice to friend in these words:
"MY DEAR -: One gallon of whisky
costs about three dollars, and contains
about sixty-five fifteen cent drinks.
Now, if you must drink, buy a gallon
and make your wife the barkeeper.
When you are dry give her fifteen cents
for drink, and when the whisky is
gone she will have, after paying for it,
$6.75 left, and every gallon thereafter
will yield the same profit. This money
she should put away, so that when you
have become an inebriate, unable to sup
port yourself and Stunned by every re-
spectacle man, your wife may have
money enough to keep you until your
time comes to fill drunkard's grave.r-
New York Sun.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Wants the McGarvey Sermon
I'm Leallet.
Jan. 81. 1892.

Jan. 81. 1892.
Mr.. Charles C. Moore,
DEAR SIR-We have read with
much interest several numbers of
your excellent paper, 1.-The Blue
Grass Blade" and here inclose
four dollars, for which plesae send
to each of for twelve months.
In this connection we desir to
commend the ability with which
your paper is conducted. We ad-
mire the fidelity with which you
adhere to the proposition, that the
chief obstacle in the way of re-
ligious progress is the lack of
practical morality in the churches.
Of what use is religion if it don't
influence a mans conduct?
The trouble with us church
members is 1--WE speak from per-
sonal experience, we allow our
selves to be governed by a sort
of double conscience ,inculcated by
the false teaching of the age
one conscience for the church and
tine Sunday school, and another
for politici and business.
The timely and wholesome ad
dress by the President of Ken
lucky University; Rev. j. W. Nc
Garvey, which was published in
Lexington Press, should be cir
culated in leaflet form and sent
to every city and town in the
state, for the evils he there por-
trays are the main hindrance to
good municipal administration in
every city in Kentucky.
Trusting that every lover of
6Iaod government may financially
aid you by Subscription to your
valuable paper, and give it as
wide circulation as possible we
remain
Yours respectfully,
G. o. ALLARD,
E. W. BAGBY.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
1t Hurts their Business.

1t is high praise which the rumsellers
of Jersey City are giving to the Peoples
palace, the institution recently estab-
ished In connection with the Rev. DIR.
j. l.. Scudder's church. They say that
it is hurting their business. We have
no doubt of it. That is what the palace
was established for. 1t keeps the young
men away from the barrooms because it
offers all the proper attractions which
the barrooms can offer. and it has in ad-
dition a good many attractions of its
own. Through such institutions as the
Peoples palace of Jersey City lies one of
the most practical and effective reme-
dies of the evils of the drink traffic.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
81 Like the way You Maui the
Preachers that Vote the old
Party Tickets"

PILLAR PolNT, N. Y. 1, 81, '92.
Z. C. Moore, Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIa AND BRoTHER-En-
closed find $l.OO, payment for the
Blue Grass Blade, for six months.
l appreciate your paper very
much. lake three Prohibition
papers, but like the Blade best of
the three.
L like the way you maui the
preachers that vote the old party
tickets. They deserve all you
give them.
Well, go on Brother with your
Blade. Cry aloud and spare not.
Lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and show my people their trans
gressions and the house of Jacob
their sin.
l am for national Prohibition.
Wishing you great success in
the cause you advocate, | am,
Very respectfully yours
M. j. GOULD.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

In his book. '.The People rve smaed
With" Marshall P. Wilder ssys: '4So1 p
Of my most successful work has beeG j
the line Of after dinner speeches, Z 4
have been asked how could 90 thHI
ten or twelve courses Of food and 81
eight different kinds Of wine and men
have any head ON my shoulders. The
answer is very easy-l don't never
drink wine or any other kind Of liquor
| don't want to give away any other
mans business secrets, but venture to
say that the best after dinner speakers
in the United States are the most mod
crate diners. II you win cast your eys
at the table in front of some man ct .
big dinner who gets up and makes q
capital speech. You win probably see
one of two things-either that all his
glasses are turned upside down or that
they are entirely full. In other words
be has been drinking little or nothing.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

Dr.. Primrose Wells, of Beckenham,
draws comparison between alcohol and
chloroform, and shows how very similar
is the action of the two drugs. With
both there is first stage of exhilaration,
when respiration and circulation are
quickened, and glow pervades the
body; second stage of excitement, and
Q third stage Of torpor and lifelessness.
"We have" says the doctor, ION each
occasion Of administering chloroform
the life history of a person getting in
toxic8ted."
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
LEFT HIS POST TO oRIs
rhe New York Press Says whisky ten
q Great Dfnnstar.

rhe New York Press Says Whisky fnnssd
. Great Disaster.
The terrible accident which Cd urred
on the New York Central railrod near
Hastings on Christmas eve, In vhbh the
locomotive of the st. Louis express
crashed into the rear car Of the fiagara
Falls special, which was standby upon
the track, killing twelve passenget, most
of them on their way home to Christmas
gatherings, and wounded manylI lore.
was due, according to the accoq pub
ished by The Press. of New "a city,
to drink.
The Press account reads: u
"A brakeman was ordered back with
Q signal light. He was told to goat least
1000 feet The man when he reached
there considered the distance to short
in which to allow the express Tor the
west time to slow up. He went gleng
farther, some 700 feet. up to where q
switchman's hut stood.
There the brakeman and the witch
man met It was Christmas eve. There
was bottle Of whisky in the b it and
the men went in. They pledgd their
healths and pledged the day, and = I'M
mindful Of the charges they u keFed
over the bottle. It was only mpj r or
two at most, bqs4Nt more thd nile
away the train w. coming " the
speed Of lightning. q
"'The half fnishiH drink was thrown
down and the brak9 jan rushed frantic
ally out, but the t. In seemed OILY the
phantom Of death, sselswiftly it palsed
him. He hallooed, t6t only the 1und
Of the rushing wind s5wered him y the
train few on.
Death was riding in the cab, anl the
brakeman and his friend, the switch ban,
sat down palsied at the disaster ilIpvit-
able to which their carelesmees n %
very largely contributed"
None Of the other daily papef4 have
published this account which whisky
played in causing the death Of 6bese In
nocent people.
Third Vice President b. Walter Webb.
Of the road. when questioned by . Voice
reporter, denied all knowledge that
Brakeman Herrick stopped to drink
whisky, thus causing the fatal accident.
-Voica
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
pr. McDonsld., e4ood Work.

DR.. r. Fl. Mcdonald. Of San Fran
cisco, is undoubtedly the most1Ax-
tensive free distributor Of tempetla
literature that the reform has produced.
1t is marvel that he should have reach
ed with his temperance catechism and
antitobacco leaflets every house. oface
and store in the great city Of San Fran
cisco. In 1891 he has distributed over
1880, 900 Of his temperance circulars,
visiting about $4,000 homes. Offices and
shor,s
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

What explanation will those give Of
the efforts of Kaiser Wilhelm to secure
laws against drunkenness, who hav in
sisted that beer was temperance drink
and pointed to Germany as a proof Of it?
The kaiser says that drunkenness mas
become a national peril, and is using all
his influence for its repression But the
tenacity with which the people hold to
their idol Gambrinus, may be seen In
the almost unanimous vote by which AAe
bundesrath the other day rejected jthe
kaiser's bill. The dispatch says th4 re-
lection had "a SOLDERING effect on the
kaiser" but the pity is that it win liAely
have an opposite effect upon the nation.
Christian Standard.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Tee,ot,Ii,n in the British ARMY.

Out of 10000 British troops in India
$4,000 are teetotaleIs. Sir Frederick
Roberts himself says that ''for every
5000 teetota.ers enrolled the strength of
the British army is practically increased
by another battalio!g The authorities
In India maze an annual grant of 5000
rupees for .1mperauce work and give
the use Of room i'll every corps for
meetings, as well as allowing refresh
ment bars TO be opened, the profits of
which go 10 temperance work, so that
the men are encouraged in every way to
remain true to their pledge.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

The following is extracted from an in
terview in the New York World with
DR.. George F. Shrady, one of the most
eminent physicians Of the city. in regard
to the grip epidemic which stEnf1kshe
city not long ago in a mild form
"Is whisky good preventives"
Whisky is never good to ward Oh
anything. Good food is the best means
with which to ward of disease. To dose
with whisky is like adding shavings to
the fire. There is no physical, mental
or moral excuse for q mans drinking
whisky as preventive Of disease"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Temperate Soldiers Best.

Out of 10000 British troops in India
1900 are teetotalers. Sir Frederick
Roberts himself says that ''for every
5000 teetotalers enrolled the strength Of
the British army is practically increased
by another battalion" The authorities
in India make an annual grant of 5000
rupees for temperance work and give the
use of room in every corps for meet
ings, as well as allowing refreshment
bars to be opened, the profits Of which
go to temperance work, so that the men
are encouraged in every way to remain
true to their pledge
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Another Louisville man Stuck
On Old Keeley's ii m-Jam
Me dicine.
LOUISVILLE. Jan. 25. '92.

hooioN LILLE, odu. 20, 5I.
The Kelley remedy is curing
thousands of drunkards of the
appetite for liqu ,r, if you do
make the assertions to the con-
trary. Do pray stop making as
sertions, and let the poor women
and children get the benefit of a
few happy days. l send you the
"Arkansaw Traveller" Just see
what one man out of thousand
says'if you please.
L am a subscriber to the Blade
and like it except some such un-
reasonable thing as this men,
toned.
1t will help Prohibition.
Respectfully
S. j. LUNDY
1120, 18th ST.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
What IL Costs to Get Drunk.

1t costs something to live and good
deal to die; in fact everything costs,
says bright exchange. Some one esti-
mates that getting born costs the people
of the United States $3.50, ,000,0 an
nually, getting married $500, ,000, 900 and
getting buried $50 200, 900. 1t might be
added getting drunk costs the people of
the United States more than 5000, ,000, 900
annually, or over one and one-half times
as much as getting born, married and
buried put together and more than all
the bread and meat consumed in the ma
tion.-Philadelphia Item.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Cured Him of Drinking.

1t may not be generally known that
DR.. Benjamin Richardson, the famous
London physician, was drinker when
his physicians assigned to him the tasS
of investigating the action Of alcohol on
living tissues He took a year for his
experiments and came out total alb
stainer; his science had controlled his
conscience ard controlled his life.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

l am going to quit fussing with
these fellows.
The "Keeley cure" retuns are
beginning to come in from the
back precincts, where old Kelley
has not sent any money to boost,
it. They will soon knock it into
a cooked hat.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

The Part Drink Plays In the t. Dye.
Even within its own field til
that tries to tell all about the laS0 s
sational outrage upon law, falls far short
Of the truth. How many facts it forgets
or fails to grasp. What paper ever finds
space for the story of parental hearts
broken, the lives of innocent victims
darkened? Where is the printed record
Of the hottie that nursed the murderous
purpose and the den that was the rendez-
vous Of the reckless carousers? The
paper that first publishes these details
win have truly valuable exclusive.
Golden Rule.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

were common talk last summer
when he was Democratic candi-
date.
The piece alluded to stated that
l had been insane, and that i
have been san inmate of Luna
tic Asylum"
If wrote that it is
hardly possible that he did not
know it was a lie, with absolutely
no foundation in fact, and l be.
lieve he has done this for ma
licious purpose.
Craddock & Remington have
published it in the Kentuckian-
Citizen.
My grievance is nothing compra-
ed with that of this lady of whom
| knew last summer. But / want
a law to protect that woman and
her children.
is very wealthy
man, and lives In paiatlal style.
l want a law that would make
him pay amply for the damage he
has done that woman and her
family, by taking away their nat
ural support, aPd that will then
put -- IN the penitentiary at
the discretion of a jury of sober
men.
The name of the party who
wrote that article is given in the
letter. ] am not at all afraid to
publish it and it will appear in
the Blade, but there are good rea-
sons why it should not appear
now.
l have no personal animus
against any individual. l simply
want to show the condition of
that church.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

DR.. Danfo-d Thomas says he holds an
nually over 200 inquests ON infants suf-
focated in bed. He is one of the coro-
uers of London. 1t is significant that
the most of these fatalities happen on
Saturday night, AMI generally by intod-
Gated mothers.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

Seventy Thousand Girls Who Serve Drinks.
1t is estimated that there are in the
United Kingdom no fewer than 20, 900
girls employed in public houses and
drinking dens.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
APpatahls Busin.s..

The breweries Of New York use about
one and one-half million GALLONS of
water a day. which they get from be
city at mere nominal price. They ix
it with little alcohol and few dJAer
ingredients. call it beer and sell it at
three and five cents glass. The million
and half gallons win bring them about
a million dollars day. Profitable bud-
ness. isn't it?- Voice.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Abstinence Made Them Healthy.

Eleven gentlemen met at lunch in
Shanghai, and it came out that they had
all been lifelong abstainers- They had
each lived in the trying temperature of
north China for periods ranging from
twenty-four to thirty-tive years, and not
one Of them had been once sick from
climatic causes.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
An Apt Description.

An old colored man who addressed a
temperance meeting at Welden, N. c..
said, "When l sees man going home
wild gallon Of whisky and half pound
81 meat, dat's temperance lecture nuff
for me. and l sees it ebery day; knows
dat eberything in his house is on de same
scale-gallon of misery to every half
pound of comfort"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

God assumed that men will have COM
mon sense. Why is there not COM
mand against intemperence in the Dec
alOgue? Because common sense would
teach man that sin which breaks all
the ten commandments need not be
specified. l.-Progrs ssive Ago.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
A Morrue Filled NV

A Morgue Filled by Victims of Drink.
The keeper of the morgue in New
York city states that four-fifths of the
5000 bodies that reach the city dea
house every year are sent there |.
drunkenness,
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Temperance Public Houses.

Mr.. Stead. in The Review OF Reviews
urges the opening of at least one ITEM
perance pubkc house" to every ten OF the
ordinary kind in given district. This
would give New York about 1000 tenn
uerancephouses and it wonld not ~
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

Linneus has truly said of alcohol, that
''man sinks gradually by this fell poison;
first he ia, ors it, then he warns to it,
then he burns for it. then he is con-
sumed by il"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Kentucky Appointments for
Chairman Dickie.

c. c. Moore, Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIR-Please announce in
Blade this week. appointments for
Chairman Dickie as follows:
Lexington Tuesday evening,
February l6, at 8 p. M; Millers-
burg 18th, at 8 p. m; Georgetown,
18th, at 5 p. m; Owenton, 18th,
at 3 p. m.
Very truly yours,
G. M. Brooks.
Chairman.
P. S. These meetings are nnder
the direction of the Lexington w.
G. 7. U.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Powderiy ON the Liquor Evil.

Powderly says he would rather have
one clear Leaded total abstainer to de-
pend ON than q whole regiment Of men
who were debauched by drink.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Yours very respectfully

It's not very encouraging to re-
ceive a note like that without a
single nickel in it from man who
has taken, my paper for sixteen
months, but he is nice and polite
about it, and beats those Stanford
fellows.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

This develops the startling fact that
the shops for the sale of liquor outnum-
bered those for the sale of food by 2,S1S.
The city has grown since 1882, but the
rum shops have more than kept pace
with the population. The figures ar
more ghastly than they were ten years
ago; The Review supposes 100000 in
habitants and II 900 saloons. These are
facts dreadful enough to raise the dead;
and yet the desire is for more dens,
more places of corruption and woe. The
way in which these saloons are piled into
certain portions of the city is told in the
following plain words:
From Broome street to Division street
on the Bowary the distance is one-thir
of mile In walking that distance on
the east side of the street the astonished
visitor will pass twenty mine saloons. 1t
is busy thoroughfare, the Bowery, and
these saloons depend for support on the
transient visitor quite as much as on the
regular inha.itant. From the corner OF
Broome stree and the Bowery eastward
to Norfolk street the distance is quar-
ter of a mile The street is quiet one,
with little business, mostly inhabited by
foreigners, all poor and industrious and
not much gi zen to patronizing saloons,
yet the visitor passes fifteen saloons be-
fore he arrives at Norfolk street. The
entire space bounded by Broone, Nor
folk, Division streets and the Bowery
contains over $50 saloons, and the pecul-
iarity of salocn location in this neighbor-
hood is that the larger number of sa-
looms are placed on the streets running
nazallel with the Bowery.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

An English NJ. P. asserts that, as no
suit of the drinking habits Of the par
ents. 5000 children In London 20 to
school each morning unfed.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
Very truly yours,
= M RpooHS
He Must Have Thought L had a
Heap of Good Nature.

WILLIAMSBURG, Jan. IA, '92.
DEAR SIR-Some very excellent
man of your town. suppose it
to be r. d. Wilson & Co. has been
sending me your paper.
AS do not wish to impose on
your good nature / will ask you
to not send it any longer aud
oblige.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13
LIQUOR IN NEW YORK CITY.

One Saloon to Each 125 Persons, Young
and Old.
The Catholic Review gives some very
Interesting and suggestive figures. They
present CHASTITY view of New York.
From official sources The Review learned
that in the city in May, 1882, there were
1905 places where intoxicating drink
was sold divided un as follows:
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

Can any one believe that city OF ST.
$50, 600 inhabitants (that being the popu-
lation of the city in 1882 needs 10000
liquor shops? Can the mildest advocate
of the rum traffic conceive to what use
all these laboratories of death can be put?
The liquor traffic must be tremendously
remunerative where there is one den to
every 125 inhabitants, sick and well, high
and low. OF the 125 at least 20 are
young children, % others total abstain
ers or occasional drinkers only, leaving
S0persons to support each palace with its
gaudy show, gilt and tinsel. The Re-
view compares the places where drink is
sold with the stores where the staff Of
life is sold. AT the time when this in
yestigation was made there were in the
The morning call., 1892-06-13
PABrFIc cLUB-FIRsr INNING.
Total
SECOND INNING.
GUARD AGAINST VAGRANT.

The other players did not go to bat /
this inning