The Press., 1895-05-09
Number 6.

chicken roast killing poor young Irish man. The third, that of an Englishman stabbed in drunken broil in the street of village, and the heart of the victim produced in court to show the cut the drunken knife had made. So the calen- dar of crime in the daily press will show a homicide from drunkenness for every day in the year. All judges testify that nine-tenths of the crimes of violence and bloodshed have their origin in drunken ness."
 In New York, as in other parts of the world, the death rate amongst Jews is in much less proportion than among the non- Hebraic classes; and this is accounted for from the fact that Jews, are as a rule, scrupulously clean in their habits of life and method of living generally. The governor of New York, in report on the low rate of mortality of the Hebrews, says: "These people are a hardy, long lived race, nor is the cause of their won derful vitality difficult to find. The pre- cepts of their religion afford one of the best sanitary codes in existence, and these
 
 over, the Hebrews are an abstemious race in the use of alcoholic beverages" When labor is most disturbed, when the demand for advanced wages is the | lOudest, when strikes are the most fre- quent, when hunger and misery are most rife in the homes of the poor, the saloon fiourishes still. There may be no bread at home, but there is always beer and whiskey at the bar, and the men who con- sider themselves the victims of circum- stances or the "thralls" of capital, squan der their earnings and spend their savings in these dens. Can there be a serious labor question while this state of things con tinues Gan working men talk gravely of their wrongs while it is plain to all the world that if they only saved the capital they earn they would be more comforta- ble ?-AtlGntic Monthly
 The brewers association of New York, according to the Sun, report a business investment of $50, ,OOO, ,OOO and the distill ers' association of $3OOOO,OOO. Both are large contributors to the campaign fund of political parties, and claim recognition therefor. Mayor Strong, however, SC says the Sun, ignored these claims in his appointment of Excise commissioners selecting persons who have no affiliations with these liquor oligarchies.
 In. Germany the problem of how tc treat -beaters has been solved in far wiser way than in most other coun trias, for there the brutal husband mus work all through the week, then turn ove his wages to his wife on pay day and % to jail Saturday night and Sunday abou two weeks of this sort of experience haa most salutary effect on the savage wife beater,
 lady who was present at meeting o the state board of pardons of Colorad says she was impressed with the fact tha ) drink was the primary cause of nearl every crime committed by those seekin
 pardon, and it was universally admitte
 that temporary insanity will most surel , follow the excessive use of intoxicants. MT. George Douglass, Scottish mis
 sionary, says that in Hai Cheng and else
 where, the new Japanese governors ar
 issuing law that opium smoking is to b abolished within four months, and ths all offenders after that will be severel dealt with. And I have lived in no plac where such drastic regulations are mo1 required.
 The restaurateur in the National Gap tol is reported as saying that "the capac ; ty of the house for liquor was somethin ' astonishing. I was simply and purely
 head barkeeper. The restaurant end ( it is nothing but cheap, lower Broadwa F lunch stand. I felt degraded myself. f never kept bar before"
 ; The board of education of Rochester f N. Y., will cooperate with the w. c. r U. women in the organization of ant
 cigarette leagues within the public school
 with the motto, ''the cigarette must go , the public school boys say so." The pla :: is to establish such league in every war = in the city.
 s The Western Christian Advocate says ''The Hawaiian race is dying out rapidl, l The missionaries have done much to ell t vate the natives; but intoxicating drink e and the accompanying vices bid fair {  'l more power to destroy than the churche 8 have to SaVe."
 Scholarship has so deteriorated in tt :. schools in Allentown, Penn., on accoul e of cigarette smoking, that the schoc y board has taken the matter in hand. ar a given notice through the newspapers 1 if dealers in tobacco not to sell to boys Ill r der 16 years, or they will be prosecuted a a ''The stringent law and prohibition al V rapidly driving the saloon from Missi l. sippi," is the acknowledgement of u e Wine and Spirit Gazette.
 Queen Victoria has signed the woma . suffrage bill of South Australia, and it
 now law.
 "The devil in solution," is Dr. Benj
 min Ward Richardson's forcible descri
 tion of alcohol.