The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-04-02
INTEMPERANCE
GOES WITH CRIME


cords Show Many Cases of
Men Unable to Curb Appetite.
John Reynolds, in his history of
the Windsor (Vermont) Prison,
says
Intemperance is not the cause of
every crime that is committed,
though it is Of very many of them.
1t is violation of not one law, but
of many The drunkard outrages
the law Of his nature, tramples on
the laws of morality, and fings con-
tempt on the law Of the Almighty;
and it is not at all wonderful that
SO manifold sin should meet with
various and adequate retribution.
Intemperance units it's votaries for
everything good, and qualities them
for, and spurs them onward to the
commission of every base and sinful
work; it is impossible to estimate
the crimes it has committed, or the
miseries it has produced. | saw in
the Windsor Prison many of the
criminal votarles of this Moloch of
modern idolatry, and my soul was
often severely panied in contemplate
ing the certain and lasting misery
with which he rewarded his most
faithful worshippers.
Pittiful Examples
l.. N. was very Incorporate
drinker. Rum had marked him for
her own. He had worshipped his
idol in jails and prisons for thou
sand miles around; and he was al
ways pnnctual and regular in his
devotions. The consequence was
the loss of public confidence, a
straw pillow for his head and a graf
ed dungeon for his home, the pollu-
ton of his soul, and the ruin of his
body-a death in shrieks of agony.
and a prison yard for his grave.
G. G. learned while a yonth to
drink the poisoned glass. He was
well educated and of respectable
family. His habit of Incorporate
drinking untitled him for business,
and he became the scott and scorn
of the giddy rabble He fled his
country for crime. and remained
at distance for years, adding sin
to sin. At lenght he returned home
and repeated his former crime, for
which he was sent to Windsor.
No one can describe the pain he
endured when taken away from the
bottle. Horrors, Blue Horrors,
Ruffled Horrors were the words in
which he expressed the agony of his
body and soul, under the cravings
of an Incorporate thirst for rum.
After several years he was pardoned,
but he returned to his former habit;
and in of his paroxysms of intoxica-
ton he inflicted mortal wound on
fellow being, and was sent back
to prison, where he now is.
Three Terms Due to Rum
P. D, illustrated very effectively
the legitimate consequences of in
temperance. After he became it's
victim, it made him the author of a
crime for which he was sent to pris-
on for eighteen months. When his
term expired, he enjoyed his liberty
about three months, during which
time be added another crime to the
effects of rum, for which he was
sent back to prison for three years.
When these had expired, he was let
out into the fields of liberty again;
but in less than seven hours he was
in jail for a crime which he had had
but just time enough to get drunk
and commit, and in less than seven
days he was back again in prison for
for six years.
This was entirely the effect of rum.
He was not criminal of choice, but
when filled with rum, he would al
ways steal. | never knew man of
better or purer moral feelings, when
he was sober; and what is by no
means common, he had such a sense
of the crimes he committed that be
justified his punishment, and always
considered it merciful. What pity
that such man should have been
ruined by lntemperance.
Very many have | heard lament
ing their crimes as having been
occasioned by rum. Their language
was If it bad not been for liquor,
| should not have done so;'' and this
was no doubt the fact. But though
the prisoners so deeply lament their
past folly and sin in drinking, it is
not easy to cure them of it. After
spending years in prison, and after
many "dolorous lament" over the