New-York tribune., 1918-05-11


bench:
Nobody can be on this bench as
! have been for years and not be abso-
lutely opposed to the consumption Of
liquor. Not day passes but man
goes over that dock as a result of
drink"
Drink Fills Almshous>
And Insane Asylum
DR.. George W. King, county physi-
clan of Hudson County, n. j., which
covers the cities of Jersey City,
Bayonne, Hoboken, ETC., and who is in
charge of the medical department. of
the hospitals. penitentiary, almshouse
and county Jail, has publicly declared:
"For three years l have been the
medical director of the Hudson
County Insane Asylum, located on
Snake Hill. have found that the
statistics of this institution agree
with those of every other part OF
she civilized world, that the predomi-
nant factor in the formation of in
sanity is alcohol. l have also had
medical supervision of the Hudson
County Almshouse, containing an
average of 600 or more paupers.
Among the inmates of that lnstitu-
tion there are men of all professions;
mechanics, tradesmen and merchants.
ments-from the highest to the low
est of the several walks of life
brought to that institution, many of
them in the prime CT life, others to
save their declining years being
spent in poverty and wretche dness,
to prevent their being the subject or
slave of John Barleycorn.'
! DR.. Guy Payne, medical superintend-
cnt Of the Essex County On. J.) Hos
pital, in the forty-second annual re-
port Of that institution says:
our hospitals owes his trouble to
DR. Henry A. Cotton, medical di-
rector of the New Jersey State Hospi-
tai at Trenton, in public document
has stated that "every drop of beer
destroys Il nerve cell"
As a further expert witness ! call
! DR.. Brtton d. Evans. medical director
Of New Jerseys great hospital for the
insane at Morris Plains, who states in
"a published address, entitled "The
Inebriate as Producer OF Deepen
dents:
at is clear that through the inor-
dinate use or excessive indulgence
in alcoholic liquor large proper
ton of the population of our institu-
tions for the insane. idiots and fee
BILE minded is furnished
And in detail he describes the evils
resulting from inebriety in parents
Transmitting to children neuropathis
taint. an abnormal warp to the cen
trail nervous system, predlspositlol
| to mental unbalance.
next introduce an official investi
CATION by the Massachusetts Bureau Of
Statistics of Labor made under ths
direction of the Legislature in 1895
which shows that 47 per cent of al
! almshouse inmates owe their CONDITION
to the use of alcoholic liquors and s4.4:
per cent of all the crimes for whlcf
convictions were obtained were due tt
intemperate habits and So per cen
were committed while the criminal wa!
under the influence of liquor.
Findings Of the
Committee Of Fifty
now call the Committee of Fift,
of New York everywhere admitted t.
be very conservative body of inves
tigators, whose secretary is now prom.
nent as liquor publicist. Their testi
mony is that 33 per cent of the pau
perism is due to the personal use o
liquor and 8 per cent to the intemper
ate habits Of others.
now call for the testimony of Johi
A. Kingsbury, Commissioner of Chari
ties, New York. who in a public state
ment published in 1.-The New Yorl
Press" May 81, 1914. testified:
''rhc real gateway to dependency
is the liquor saloon. Over 30 per
cent Of the two thousand cases ex-
amined admitted to being addicted
to the habit of alcoholic drink, and
| gave that habit a. the chief reason
Tor their dependency. About 80 per
cent of the inmates Of the prisons
of this country became prisoners as
a result of the use of liquors. Over
90 per cent Of the crimes committed
by the inmates OF our state prisons
were committed in liquor saloons
II now call Judge William NJ. Gem
nil, of the Chicago Municipal Court
who has made this declaration:
"Boozc Is the mother OF crimes.
1t gives life and sustenance to sA-
looms. dives, brotkels. gambling dens
and 'pAy-of joints II ncrves to his
deed the homicide, the stick-up man.
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