The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-02-23
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ATTRIBUTE WANT TO LIQUOR
reetly or Indirectly Traced to
Whisky Habit.


Sir William Dawson. late principal
OF McGill college. Montreal. testified
before the Royal Commission: 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.
~ attributable TO the liquor traffic"
Or. A. n. Reid. ten years superinten.
dent Of the General hospital. Halifax,
y. s.. also testified: The experience
OF ten years In our General hospital
shows me very clearly that though our
statistics represented very large per.
centage of sickness there as the re-
suit OF lntemperance. really II you ng,
ure out tho wide influence u has, that
the percentage would come. suppose.
up TO 30"
Drink has been largely the cause.
direct and predisposing. OF tho numer.
Gus insane In our asylums. DIR Daniel
Clark. Is years superintendent of tho
Insane asylum. Toronto. gave evidence
that Of 5000 cases which he had care
fully examined he found ga 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. est.
mated the annual loss Of life in Can
ada through the liquor traffio at 1000
And In 1855 the Hon George r. Fos-
ter. In his place I'm Parliament. said
5000 deaths per year might be safely
set down as due tn 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
those poor wretchcs (the homeless
and starving poor of darkest EnglandD
are. as Bishop South truly said. mot
30 much born into this world as
damned into H." Richard L. Dugdale
writes Of the progeny of a woman
named Margaret. descendant Of Max.
n very hard drinker who became blind
and many OF whose children Inherited
his tntemperance: In tracing the
yonealogios OF $40 persons who de-
scended in seven generations from
this degraded woman. and 100 who
were related by marriage OF cohabita-
ton. ESQ were adult paupers and 40
were criminals and offenders Of tho
worst sort. guilty OF seven murders.
theft. highway robbery. and nearly
every other offonse known In the cal
endar OF crime" lie estimates that
tho cost to the public Of supporting
this family OF drunkards was 81 sos
900.
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
Ave cases of crime adjudicated by him
have been the issues and products %
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 pcstilence
combined. Ibat IL true. and ~ Is tho
measure OF our discredlt and dis
grace"
These voices were uttered In tho
motherland. But the spirit OF tho
liquor traiiic is one. ever and every.
where the same. and It's fruits abound
In our own land Sir Oliver Mowat,
for more than quarter OF a century
Premier Of Ontario. and proverbial for
his extreme caution, repeated. after a
lapse OF score Of years. as his ma
ture 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 10 the foul evil OF intem-
narapra"