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Black Bottle and Wife Beating.

Black Bottle and Wife Beating.
am not Temperance crank" but af.
ter my many years experience as magis-
trate in the New York police courts I give
it as my opinion that liquor is the greatest
curse Of mankind.
There are seven police courts in the Dor.
ough Of Manhattan.
Take rum away, and I am certain that
two courts will be sufficient to DO all the
work.
With no liquor there would be no wife
beating and no cruelty to little children.
&c. to the bottom of these fendish OF.
fenses and you will find the black bottle
almost every time. Every illused wife
who comes before me-a!most without ex.
ception-tells me that her husband is all
right, that he is kind to his children. that
he brings his money home until he begins
to drink Then everything is changed.
This statement may startle you:
! have passed judgment upon thousands
OF wife beaters.
This is equivalent to saying that have
passed judgment upon thousands Of whisky
bottles, for from my knowledge Of human
nature know that it is liquor that is the
wife beatcr and not the man. It would
whom ! commit to BlackwelPs Island
eight times year.
The purpose of this article is to make
you moderate drinkers think. Do not be
offended when l intimate that you, sc a
moderate drinker, would ever think OF
beating your wife or kicking your little
baby across the room. You are Mortified
at this thought, of course.
But every wife beater who ever came
before me was at one time moderate
,drinker."
Think this over. II may prevent you
from becoming drunkard.
1t is these wife-beating cases that bring
home to me every day this awful curse Of
tory of all. The wife is usually the com.
plainant. Her brute of husband 10 sent
to Jail. But ii he is brute, he is also the
bread winner for his wife and children,
and the pity OF It is there are usually many
of the latter. So in nine cases out OF ten
she is back in court within a week to with
draw the complaint or with the necessary
bail. And it often happens that the bonds
man she brings with ner is the saloonkeep.
er who sold her husband the liquor that
made him beat his wife.
There is lesson in all this to the man
who is the moderate drinker now.
But a good many men who when drunk
have kicked their wives and killed the un.
ishing have told me that one time they
took only an occasional glass of beer
Clarence w. Meade, City Magistrate, New
York.
Beer Makes Men Stupid, Lazy. Impotent.
Dr.. Bunge, professor of physiological
chemistry in the University of Basle, IL
an eminent scientist, but he has another
claim to be heard. While pursuing his stu.
dies at the university he was corps stu.
dent; that is, he belonged to one of those
association which are known for their
drinking excesses. He says the exhilera.
tion produced by alcohol is not an eleva.
tion of the spirit. but an ebulition Of feel.
ing. which the intellect does not, guide,
which is blind to the actuality, and which
is therefore misleading. He declares that
by means of experiments repeated thou.
sand times it has been demonstrated that
in times of peace and war, in all climates,
in heat and rain and cold. soldiers endure
most successfully the hardships Of the se.
verest marches, If wholly deprived Of al
coholic drinks. Everyone who has made
the experiment admits Internationally
that one can best endure intellectual work
of every kind when he abstains entirely
from alcoholic drinks" The apologists for
beer should take to heart Bunge's deliber.
ment gwen by Busch, his secretary: Beer
makes men stupid. lazy and impotent.
Bier macht DUNN, faul, und impotent."
The professor says it must be empha.
sized chat of all alcoholic drinks beer is
the very worst Beer is the most PERM.
cious OF all alcoholic drinks because no
other is so seductive. No other drink so
greatly leads to intemperance. ce."-Forward.
what to Do with Drunkards.
To the Editor OF the New York Times