The herald., 1893-10-19
DRINK and orlme.


biiity for the sentiments exeressedl
Drink aud Crime.
Editors HERALD: On August 26th
last l sent the following communication
to the California Prohibitionist at San
Jose as q criticism OF some OF the state
inents in that paper, in acknowledge
ment OF which l received the following
card:
SAN JOSE, GAL, Sept. IA, 1893.
DEAR SIR Your favor to hand with
communication. 1t will appear duly.
Please accept thanks. Yours resp'y,
@. A. TUPPER.
The reader will notice that the date OF
the card is 10 days later than the date Of
my communication, and now 81 days
more has passed since the date OF that
DOS al card and | have no word OF nv
communication yet. though l sent s
cents, with request that he send me the
issue containing my article.
Here is the article:
Editor California Prohibitionist: In
your Issue OF July 9, 1898 find in tbs
fret column Cf the first page this state
ment: 1.-Two thunsand millions OF dol
lars a year ie the aum expended in this
country for tlink
In fourth lnmp OF same page find
this statement. ''rhe vaat sum OF
s900,00 900 Il annually spent over the
bars in th!a rrnntfy."
If q paper is seeking for the truth
why don ii hhrmon'2e lie etatementsf
Why this disc rpancv of 81 ,l00, 900. .000r
Both staten nte cant be true. When
Buchamp sp ke lisre in last falls cam.
paign lie sail that 81 200. 600, 900 was
Al hA hu~a H<x~
drinks. All these statements are wild
and awav Off the mark. Outside OF
political boomerang $500, 100000 Is the
best figures that can ind.
Now. il Prohibitioniats were sincere
and honest in their efforts to bring
about moral reformation they would
most assuredly get correct statistics and
then stick there.
In the second colume OF the frst page
find, under the heading Some Figures:
General Eaton, United States commits
soner of education, states that 80 per
cent of the crime OF the country is the
result OF intemperance and 95 per cent
of the depraved youth are the children
OF drunken and depraved households"
Now suppose we look at come statis-
ties OF our own state OF California.
quote from the eleventh annual report
of the state board OF prison directors for
the fortieth fiscal year, ending june 80.
1890. page 3S. under head OF cauee of
committing crime, that there were in
San Quentin prison 1892 convicte, OF
whom 200 got there through liquor,
fraction over 20 per cent, but 800 got
there through the use OF opium, a frac-
tion over 40 per cent.
Now let us look at the seventh bien-
Mai report of the directors and warden
OF the Kansas state pententiary to the
governor OF Kansas for the fiscal year
1889 1890, pages 55 and Sc. There were
in that prison $50 convicts, 500 had par
ents that were church members, 175
had parents that were not church MEM
-bere, SO did not know; 500 had attended
Sunday school regularly, 2l4 had not;
200 had parents that used liquor ae q
beverage, 300 had parents that did not
use liquor as q beverage, "A did not
know.
Now where is Mr.. Eaton's 95 per cent
OF drunken and depraved households?
| will give an extract from the seven-
teenth annual report OF the commission
ers OF public charities OF the common
wealth Of Pennsylvania for 1885,
volume OF 600 pages:
"A study OF the statistics OF this
prison will show that the prevalent
impression that intemperancs is the
most. fruitful cause OF crime 10 erron-
eous. There are crimes, as burglary,
forgery and professional thievery, the
practice of which is inconsistent with
indulgence in strong drink, and 1t is
we'll to understand that If there was no
such thing as drunkenness such an in.
stitution as the eastern penitentiary
would lose but few OF it's inmates"
This article ia open for criticism.
Please send me issue containing the ar
ticle, for which find stamps.
+. LEWIS.
Pasadena, CAL, Aug. 26, 1898.
We Kept a copy ae we always DO whsn
we send an article to doubtful place,
hence our ability to produce it verbatim.
We chose Kansas and California, one a
prohibition and the other not prohibit
tion state, to show Mr.. Upper that he
had no truth on his side. We have
plenty OF statistics from other states
which corroborate the above, but until
these are answered it is not necessary to
produce any more. E. LEWIS. n.
Pasadena, CAL, Oct. IL, 1893.
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