St. Paul daily globe., 1895-06-24

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our favor.
Police force ....... .s179,345 76 $16S,29O so
Police pension -. 5,105 40 4,726 81
Municipal court 80 3,467 GO 1880 90
Jail and lockups :. 4,353 As 3,709 %
Workhouse 80. -. 26,141 "A 24,Gl4 76
Good Shepherd -. 1,79S 61 1,456 IS
Totals -. .s230, ,211 46 s215, 5,O9S 13
MUNICIPAL COURT CASES
were as follows: In 1893, 5,932, of which
5,407 were male and 525 female. Of
these 2.S18 were discharged and 3, l14
punished by fine or imprisonment. One
out of every "a of the population (on
the basis of 100000 were before the
court, and l out of every lib of these
were females; / out of every 40 having
been fined or imprisoned. This is not
very good showing for our SANITY
than rs classified offences before the
court, and yet the saloons are direct
ly responsible for one-third OF all the
criminal cases and indirectly respon-
sible for doubtless great many more.
1t is a significant fact that all but
75S of the 5,532 criminal cases can be
classified under the six heads, saloons,
1875; disorderlies, 1,24S; vagrancy, 1,03l;
larceny, 449; ill-fame, 178, and gam
bling. SS. In "a the figures differ but
little, there being slight falling off
in all cases. But when we come to
realize that the saloons are at the bot
tom of one-third or more of all our
criminal cases, it shows that apart
from any humanitarian side OF the ques-
tion apart from the matter OF saddened
homes, our saloons are very eXpen-
sive matter, even though 1t be true
that under the $1,000 license they pay
the whole cost They must make this
Of du higher
license the more drunkardS they must
try to make because the more liquor
they must sell Ninety-four per cent
of all those committed to the work
house in '93. and 90 per cent in "a, ad-
mitted that they were Incorporate,
2,33TTo CT the commitments being young
men between twenty and~thlrty years;
nearly one-haf, and nearly all ruined
by the saloon.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
How shall we remedy the evil?
would have the government take so Sc
rious a matter in hand, buy up the
distilleries, and only allow SO much to
be manufactured as would be an abso-
lutte necessity. l would, until then, ad-
vocate the high license plan which has
driven out possibly 100 saloons from
this city Last year there were 3o9
licenses taken out, and this year there
are only go saloons in force, and many
of these have changed hands four ana
five times. I am glad to say that the
day seems to be coming when the Sa-
loon business will not pay, ana that
there are many saloonkeepers VINO
would gladly get out-of it if they could.
| know several saloonkeepers' wives
who are sorely distressed because their
husbands will not give up so dlsSface-
full a business, and l know several eX-
saloonkeepers who say that they would
not go back into the business, now
that they are out, for any amount OF
money.
one of the saloon men of the city told
me that he thought one of the best
ways to help remove the evils from
the saloon that many of them. recog-
nize and dislike as well as we, would
be to take out all tables and chairs
and do away with the free Iuhehe5
and the dangerous treating habit, ana
take down the blinds, taking away
ali secrecy and the saloon business,
bad as it is, would be greatly ele-
waited. We must look at and consider
and talk about these things together,
for the thing has gene far enough ana
we must seek a remedy. Ii we must
have the saloon let US take from it all
it's present dangers. The scandinavian
plan deserves our attention II a bet
ter cannot be found.
But now a word about the poor
drtnkard himself. what became OF
the man who went down from
Je1usaleum to Jericho; was he rushed
before a judge and run into work
house. because he was so unfortunate
as to fall among the thieves? No,
he was taken by a good Samaritan to
a kind-hearted landlord, hospital, IL
YOU please, and was taken care OF un-
fill he was able to take care of himself
So I believe it should be with these
poor unfortunates. 1 do not believe
they should be cast into prison for
thirty or sixty or ninety days, to come
ont and back into the same old vices
again. Such a round of penalties will
do them no good, it will only harden
them in sin and crime. But they are
mentally diseased, they are filled. with
the the poison of the alcohol; they should
he treated as diseased persons, and
cared for in the spirit of the Master
until they are we'll and able to care
for themselves, and to keep out of the
way of the robbers. and made able and
willing to support their families.
hope to live to see the day when thesS
moor afflicted fellow creatures will be-
not punished for, but cured of their
dreadful malady brought on them
largely by others. often unprincipled,
men. seeking their hard-earned dollars
Let us all strive to act the part of goods
Ga ana 1'itallS. A