Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-01
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ATTRIBUTE WANT TO LIQUOR
Pauperism, Crime and insanity Di-
rectly or Indirectly Traced to
Whisky I-atit.

Sir William Dawson, late principal
of McGill college. Montreal, testified
before the Royal Commissions: II
have had occasion to institute inquir-
les In regard to the pauperism of Mon
treal. | can confidently say that near
ly all the want and restitution prevail
ing in this city is directly or Indirect
ly attributable to the liquor traffic"
DR.. A. R. Reid, ten years superinten-
dent of the General hospital, Halifax,
N. S., also testified: The experience
of ten years in our General hospital
shows me very clearly that though our
statistics represented G very large per-
centage of sickness there as the re-
suit of intemperance, really if you fig
ure out the wide influence it has, that
the percentage would come, suppose,
up to 90.'
Drink has been largely the cause,
direct and predisposing, of the numer-
Gus insane In our asylums. DIR. Daniel
Clark, 18 years superintendent of the
Insane asylum, Toronto, gave evidence
that OF 5000 cases which he had care
fully examined he found 91a per cent.
were without any uncertainty pro-
duced directly by drink, says the Mon
treal Star and Herald
The Hon. George w. Ross. in his
place in the House of Commons, esti-
mated the annual loss of life in Can
ada through the liquor traffic at 1000.
And In 1885 the Hon. George E. Fos-
ter, in his place In Parliament, said
5000 deaths per year might be safely
set down as due to this cause
we are only on the threshold of the
exact study of heredity in relation to
vice and crime, yet enough is known
to justify General Booths strong Ian
guage: Thousands upon thousands of
these poor wretches (the homeless
and starving poor of darkest England)
are, as Bishop South truly said, mot
so much born into this world AS
damned into It," Richard L. Dugdale
writes of the progeny of a woman
named Margaret, descendant of Max.
very hard drinker, who became blind
and many of whose children inherited
his intemperance: I'm tracing the
genealogies Of $40 persons who de-
scended In seven generations from
this degraded woman, and 1859 who
were related by marriage or cohabita-
ton, $50 were adult paupers and 14O
were criminals and offenders of the
worst sort, guilty of seven murders.
theft, highway robbery, and nearly
every other offense known in the cal
endar Of crime" He estimates that
the cost to the public of supporting
this family of drunkards was s1,3O8.-
600.
Time would fail to tell of Sir Mat
thew Hale, Chief Justice of England.
who said that "by due observation"
he had found that four out of every
five cases of crime adjudicated by him
have been the issues and products of
excessive drinking.
OF Gladstone, who affirmed: 1T has
been said that greater calamities-
greater because more continual-have
been inflicted upon mankind by intern
;perance than by the three historic
.scourges OF war, famine and pestilence
combined. That is true, and 1t is the
measure Of our discredit and dis
:prano"
These voices were uttered In the
.motherland. But the spirit of the
liquor traffic is one, ever and every
where the same, and its fruits abound
in our own land. Sir Oliver Mowat.
for more than a quarter of a century
Premier of Ontario and prOverhia1 for
his extreme caution, repeated, after
lapse of score of years, as his ma
iture judgment, IAN enormous proper
ton, probably three-fourths of the vice
that prevails at the present day, Of
the crime which they had to contend
with, of the lunacy, the idiocy, the
poverty and the misery of every kind,
Is owing to the foul evil of intern
.perance."