Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
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LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
records Of Courts and Prisons
Law go Per Cent Of Crime
To Drunkenness.
MENACE TO W Y o. 1. Y 10 D.
,,o,f The Divorces of Country Caused
By biauor--Homes Wrecked by
# Standardization Of Boys.


Decentralization Of Boys.
n pocatello Aug. 1a.-The relationship
II the liquor traffic to iawlessness ana
immortality, is a phase OF the temper
.nce question which Is in my opinion
the most important, and II IT can pc
,,royeu that the sale and use of LIQUOR
tends TO deprave5 men, and make Grim
mails Of them, there should be no need
II any other argument
This phase, of the question is also the
mast easily understood, and requires
the least Illustration. because there are
i very few persons who read this, that
have not abundant evidence of the
harmful effects Of liquor on the morals
and, character Of individuals within
their observation.
Quite recently the writer had oc-
rasion to be in the presence of the
Judge of our Judicial district when SIX
law breakers were brought before him
for sentence; and five of these men
pleaded as Justification for a light PEN
ally, the fact that the crimes charged
Ia them had been committed while they
we're under the influence of liquor
TIE Judge took occasion to express
his regret that Ave young men,. IN
teligent in appearance, should pc
brought to crime, disgrace and Inn
prisbnment through indulgence IN IN
toxicatlng drinks, and further remarked
that 1t was appalling to see the great
number of young men who were being
ruined by liuuor No one understands
this condition better than the judges
who are called upon to pass sentence
4 on these gmisguid ed men day after day
/ have tliHt4sceneiai many mind as l
write, and ISwIsl1 that 1t could be inn
pressed upon the mind Of every voter
ia Bannock county, and indeed of our
nation, and there would need to be no
other spur8to bring them to the polls
( when this issue comes up for their De
cIspn But such statements as this
usually do not come with full force Sec
md handed, and they require corrobo-s
ration, and for that purpose let me
give you few reports and figures.
LICENSE AND NO LICENSE COM
PARED.
Out of 26,672 crimes committed in
Massachusetts during the year 1905,
92,hl We're committed by criminals, who
acknowledged that their Incorporate
habits, led to the condition which in
duced the crime. and 21,S73 confessed to
being under the influence of liquor when
the crime was committed
Over 81 per cent of the crimes due to
!. intoXcation.
cense In New Hampshire; that year
there were ara criminal DRINKS, 1903
there We're 1888; 1904 there were 1887;
1905 there were 1887, 1906 there were
| sfH. With the restoring of the saloon
criminals increased nearly five-fold
Tho license counties Chat Is. the
counties where liquor Is permitted to be
sold, in West Virginia, have one man in
the pententiary for every 500 Of their
counties have one for every 1871; while
The S2 no license counties have one for
every 1929.
Easy to see which class is producing
the criminals
s AS far back as the year 1884, a select
committee Of the house of commons,
+ English parliament declared that to
the traffic in intoxicants was due the
spread of crime in every shape and
form"
The report of the president OF the
Prison commission in Scotland says:
Ninety per cent of he inmates of corr
rectional institutions are directly or in
directly the victims of alcohol.
For $4,000 persons arrested for minor
oofenses in the year 1896. almost three--
iourths We're under the Influence OF
LIQUOR when taken into custody.
Rev George Warren, chaplain of the (
Missouri penitentiary says that out of
ZIG convicts In the, prison at the time
ne IV made an investigation, SIS per cent OF
me tire number came there directly
through the influence of liquor, ana
mat per cent of the remainder came
.here indirectly from the same cause.
+ mat o sf,f-. q irt FL.
! missouri penitentiary are the result
state.
NO less an authority than Judge AL
ION g. Dayton Of the federal court has
sad; I'VE don't license any man to
( roo, steal OF murder, but you can take
NE licensed saloons generally of she,
| soantrv and the m4rders committed
under tbs sale Of liquor will average
one murder for every saloon in the
] country
TESTIMONY OF, A LAWYER
An experienced criminal lawyer in a
! neoS entitled Leaves From the Diary
u. u an Old Lawyer wrote the follow
My experience at the bar has salts
nea me that intemperance is the dl-
.eet cause of nearly all the crimes that
are committed in our country, have
seen at the bar over 80 years, have
seen engaged in over 1000 criminal
sases, and on mature reflection i am
ssatlsfled that over 5000 of those cases
nave a originated from drunkenness
alone, and I believe that a great pro
p9Ftion OF the remainder could bestrac-
g either directly or indirectly to this
sleat source OF crime. In 6S cases Of
sofiiieide, 40 have been caused by the
Maddening influence of strong drink !"
y DRINK FILLS LOCAL JAIL.
.The instances might be greatly null
.ipied AS to the inmates OF our
county jail, one of the officials of the
ss ~ has Informed me, thatout OF the
!as, he does not believe that there ars
, ap than two. that have not been
esrinklng men. The five out of six re-
erfed To in liz i,a f this i,i.,