Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-26
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: ''God and Home and Native Land.'
WHAT THE GREAT MEN OF THE
WORLD THINK OF INTEM-
PERANCE.
BY E. P. POWELL.

men of the world on the subject OF
drinking. 1 am impelled to collect
them from him and others in form of
The Voice, because of the recent ut
terance of President Eliot of Harvard
against total abstinence from alcohol
&c drinks. l supposed that the fight
was finished fifty years ago among
the ministers, lawyers, teachers of
New England; and that the decision
was that, taking into consideration
our own liability to excess, and our
duty to our neighbors, the rule is wise
to abstain. Have we got to go over
our experience and our lessons in each
generation? Is there no progress to
be made? The question is painfully
pertinent in view of the recent rec
ords of our college and university
boys.
The English judges have the follow
ng to say on the wisdom of using al
tohol:
Chief-Justice Coleridge says, 81 can
keep no terms with vice that fills
bur jails-that destroys the comforts
bf homes and the peace of families,
md debases and brutalizes the people
bf these islands," Justice Denman
ays that on one occasion he sat to
ry ga calendar of SO prisoners, out of
Which 36 were charged with offences
here being no less than six murder
rs. In every single case, not indi-
ectly but directly, these offences
we're attributed to excessive drink
n.y." Justice Muller says he thinks
e can "eXpress with some authority.
fter fifteen years. experience as a
Judge, that most of the crimes of vi
lence proceed either directly or in
irectly from drink Justice Fitz-
erald says intemperance is "a crime
eading to nineteen wentieths Of all
Their crimes" Lord Justice White
de says, "All the crimes we meet
it'll on circuit are more or less di-
betty caused by drunkenness"
hdge Pattison said to jury, eff it
ere not for the drinking you and I
ould have nothing to do" Baron
artin says, "Crime is the immediate
nd direct result of drink" Baron
owse says, ''The amount of alcohol
Pnsumed in any district is the meas
e of the degradation" Sir James
amen AYERS that ''75 out of every
0 divorce cases are brought about
alcohol" Sir Henry Thompson
US, "There is no greater cause of
il, moral and physical" The Ma
bnal Society for the Prevention Of
Fuelty to Children selected IS cases
typical fiendishness, and found that
these Is were directly traceable to
tohol.
The Blank Record published by the
glish Alliance made newspaper
ppings for two weeks; and here is
record charged to alcohol: % dan
rous accidents; Is robberies;
pes of insanity; 81 outrages and as
llts; 20 cuttings and Standings; 5
pes of brutality to children; 50 as
Its on women; ~ assaults on cons
>les; "a violent deaths; Is cases of
eide; II cases of manslaughter"
long ago as 1872, Sir Matthew Hale
pte that he believed himself we'll |
Allied by his position as Judge to
Fermine the real effects of the drink
of alcohol, land by close observ-
pm l have found that if the murders
manslaughters, the burglaries
robberies, the riots and tumults,
adulteries, foundations, rapes,
other great enormities which
Re happened in any time, were di-
ed into five parts, four of them
aid have been the issue of excess
drinking" In 1850 the physicians
london drew up memorial saying
there were $4,000 cases of fatal |
ess due to alcohol alone.
ishop Benson declares that the
v temper and nature of the people |
England had become changed by
"Our people," he said, "are
It they never were before, cruel
inhuman." John Wesley said
all who sold "spiritous liquors to
who would buy are prisoners gen
They drive men to hell like
ep. A curse in the midst of them.'
Darwin, father of Charles Oar
testified ''that when chronic dis
s arise from the use of ardent
it they are liable to become he
tary, even to the third generation;
if the cause is continued, to in
Sc till the family is extinct" "Of
naniacs in two hospitals, 391 were
such by intemperance," says
Massey. Cholera records are es-
ally interesting as showing in