Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-09-21
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NOTES. |
Covington went dry" by 40 ma
jority in the election held there
Tuesday of last week.
One can't put a bushel of potatoes
into peck measure, but it is possible
to get peck of trouble out of n |
pint fiask.-Chicago News
Ashby J. Duke, a justice of peace
In Richmond, pied guilty to the
charge of selling liquor on Sunday
before Justice Crutch6eld, who
fined him $500 and in addition scored
the officer of the law for breaking
law that he was sworn to uphold. |
''Mr. Duke, you are sworn officer
of the law" said Justice John before
passing sentence. "You have sworn |
to obey the laws of the Common
wealth, and to see to it that others
obeyed the same laws that you have
taken oath to sustain. 1t little
becomes you in that capacity to have
gone yourself and deliberately broken |
those same laws you swore to carry
out. will not revoke your license,
as there seems to be some doubt as
to my power in that direction. Let
Judge Witt do that. But will fine
you $500 for your violation of the
law"
SOME OF THE FRUITS.
In our picture we see twelve Jury
men. They are sworn to listen to
the witnesses and to the lawyers, and
to decide upon. the facts given in the
case as to whether the prisoner is
guilty, and of just what crime. Such
men as these see much of the terribly
bitter fruits of intemperance. They
know there is hardly sin in that
long, black list in YER. 1921 which
has not been caused many times over
by drink. They we'll know that it is
the victims of drink who crowd the
police courts, fill the poor-houses.
hospitals, penitentiaries, reforma-
tories, and prisons. They would
fully agree, every man of them, with
the wise old Arab sheik or chief of
whom this story is told in the East:
lie gave a young Arab prince from
whom ne was about to part, list of
crimes, and bade him choose the one
that seemed least harmful. The
young prince turned in horror from
murder, theft. and such things, and
told the patriarch that be would
choose intemperance. "You have
chosen that" said the wise old man.
switch will bring you all the rest of
the crimes"
Let Us look at just few of the
facts that jurynen, judges, lawyers.
and others who see the fruits of
drinking liquors give.
A lord chief justice of England
says: Judges weary with calling
attention to drink as the principal
cause of crime. But / cannot refrain
from saying that if they could make
England sober they would shut up
nine-tenths of The prisons"
A judge of Philadelphia says:
"We can trace four-fifths of the
crimes that are committed to the in
fiuence of rum There is not one
case In twenty where man is tried
for his life, in which rum is not the
direct or Indirect cause of the mur-
der, Rum aud blood, | mean the
shedding of blood, go hand in hand"
A Boston district attorney says:
"Ninety-nine out of one hundred of
the crimes in our commonwealth are
produced by intoxicating liquors."
The inspectors of large state
prison report that "four-fifths of the
prisoners committed the crimes for
which they were sentenced, either
directly or indirectly through indul-
gence in intoxicating drinks"
A prison association reports: "Of
other causes, it may be said that they
slay their thousands; of intemperauce
it must be acknowledged thatit slays
its tens of thousands"
From the testimony of physicians
it is proved that some hundred thous-
and persons die annually in the
United States as the result of drink.
Seventy-five per cent Of all crime.
and fifty per cent of all cases of
insanity are attributed to alcohol"