Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-02-15
w. c. I. u. COLUMN.

The most talked OF man In America
today Is Andrew Carnegie ana whist
what he says Is not lniai.iuie. yet when
he speaks peopic uSuauy listen. In an
address before a railroad y. NJ. 4. "A.
recently, ne SAID. Il drinking man
should have no place In railway sys.
tenn. 4 has remark, whist neither or
isinal noi brilliant, has ce. tain value
because OF It's truth and because the
canny ScUtcnman SAID 1t. He might
have aided, The drinking man has no
pace anywhere least of all In the
nome, Yet the drinking man Is but the
finished product of the Haoon. ana
there Is certain incOngruity In ostra-
cialng the drinking man ana support
ing the institution which made him
thus, which the american public Is not
SOW To observe.
The Chicago American, In one OF its
editorials quite lateiy, calls attention
TO the laughter and gibes INDUCED in
by persons when drunk man staggcrs
aiung the street and comments thus.
"rhe sight of drunken man going
home should make every othe. man
and woman sad and sympathetic ana
horrible as the sight Is, IL should be
useful by inspiring those who see IL
with a resolution to avoid the drink
habit, and help Others to avoid il.
Now good way to help others avoid
this terrible curse and avoid 1t our
selves Is 20 do away with the factories
which make drunkards, viz, the legal.
lied dram shops For the past few
years the Chicago Tribune has each
year published a statement regarding
crimes of violence In the United
states. This report IL based upon
what the news dispatches bring to the
Tribune Office. According to Tribune
figures In the year 1901 there were
500 murders committed as the direct
outcome Of drink. The same statistics
give i6fG murders as the outcome Of
quarrcls. Il Is matter of common
knowledge that few quarrels end in
murder when the principals are both
sober. but accepting the more con.
sentative figures $40 murders stand as
n charge of appalling hlackness against
tho saloon. The sale of Intoxicating
drink under any regulation by any
method produces crimc-makes muir
! der Murder touches us closely enough
al times The whole country stood ap.
nalled when a single murder was com.
mitted I'm Buffalo last year. but how
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spatter the blood OF its crimes in the
face OF Christian and civilized people
In the early morn OF Sabbath day. Jan
vary &c. 1909. In the cultured city OF
! BOSTON. Michael Kilroy reeled nome
with pockets empty OF money. His
wife timldly Gskit.4 for money for the
necessities which were staring them
| IN the face. He answered her by blow
] which Knocked her To the floor. and
/ choking back her cry for mercy he
/ kicked her with his heavy boots. Then
/ he sat for hours listening to her means
/ When her little 9-year-old girl. answer
| ing her pitiful cry for water" put tho
] cup 70 her bloody. thirstlng lips, he
} struck the cup from her hands
brute. Granted. Yet the American sa
loon Is turning out such brntes every
day. No other agency has ever beer
found in the history Of the race to in
sqire men to such deeds except drink
Drink IS preparing more Michael XII
roys So many. many tragedies doe,
drink inspire that the public scare,
! pause TO note one. more or less
They are so common they attract M
attention. 4 remedy has been suggest
ID Ia socialism ,le idea being that tn,
love of gain Is the prime motive Of tn,
existence OF the saloon. Socialism hat
its beginning In the greatest bee
drinking countries OF the world ant
whilst II Is gaining widespread inter
est, 20 far II mas had no appreciate
effect upon decreasing the drink evil
When socialism emhodies in a practi
cal form the extinction of the liquo
traffic, then will temperance hosts en-
~ under the socialistic banner 20
that Is what we stand for---not regula
ton. but the tota and entire annihila
tion OF the legalized liquor traffic
MRS G. II. WILSON.
Press Reporter w. C.. II IT,