The Washington times., 1927-03-08
Gin Lane --Hogarth's Picture
High Prices Fortunately, Keep Our Bootegging From
Being as Bad as This


The picture by Hogarth this page pleasant But
it well remind intelligent readers of the that aco
hol has human beings.
Gin whskey and other spirits are MODERN poisons The
Greeks Romans and other ancien drank excess but they
had no spirits no ALCOHOL Had they possessed do
now their civilizations might have lasted long
This unpleasant picture will make readers others
corning the drink evil
When Hogarth lived in England 1897 to 1894 gin and
whskey new and governments had not learned to
be afraid Of And you could read the doors of five
hundred alcohol dives the sign that you in this picture
Drunk for one penny dead drunk for twopenc clean
for nothing.
You could drink until you drunk for penny, drink
until YOU were unconscious for wopnce And when you fell
to the ground they would give you for nothing clean
straw to lie on.
With marvellous power Hogarth tells in this picture the
story what gin drinking actually DID to Londons miserable
On the left you see the pawnbroker taking the
with which the mechanic works the kitchen utensils that the
woman uses for the feeding of her familyhaded in for
money to buy gin. |
n the background woman dead Of drink and nearly
naked placed in coffin to be buried at public expense
drunken woman in the foreground allows her child to
fall to its death and at her feet man feby holds bottle
and glass in the last throes of alcoholic destruction
monstrously fat in wheelbarrow is having gin
poured his mouth by he is wheeled home and
at the right you mother pouring alcohol into the mouth
Of That ACTUALLY HAPPENED not occasionally
BUT MILLIONS OF TIMES; the mserably ignorant women
who found that drinking gin made them forget their
troubles thought would also be good for their children
The French say "es rGnds demand les gr0nds
Remedies which great evils demand great remedies
England found in high taxation partial remedy for gin
drinking drunkenness that threatened to destroy British popu
aon it threatened in Thomas Jefferson time to destroy
our populations here.
Jefferson you will remember demanded that the Govern
en encourage from taxation light wines and beer
order discourage whiskey which, he said kills half
Of our and ruins their families
The British put heavy upon spirits And then for
tunately the brewing drinking of beer took the place to
large extent especially working people Of destructive
fiery spirits.
Gin whiskey and other alcoholic poison like the drugs
that ruin many lives opium morphine cocaine, are COM
paraivey discoveries New for human beings
It is possible make gallon of strong whskey four
quarts at a cost Of less than twenty-five cents
possible when this picture was made to manufacture
gin could hold, quart OF or more for
penny tWopence.
picture shows what it meant to give this cheap gin to
the people of London when Hogarth lived.
Think what would this country should be cursed
with alcoholic posons at anywhere cost ONE DOLLAR
A GALLON If THE Law DID NOT INTERFERE, would
provide enormous profit.
These peope at least did not drink WOOD ALCOHOL,
the kind poison that boolegge mix less dis
creetly with their bootleg whiskey and gin of today
Government agents operating various ctes snow tna
that quarts of gin with cent of wood alcohol will
kill that drinks it. lesser amount will produce blind
and set irritation and disease OF the kidneys that
be cured
Below this picture Hogarh printed the following lines
Gin, cursed fiend with fury fraught
Makes human prey;
1t enters by deadly draught
And steals life away.
Virtue and truth driven to despair,
Its rage compes to fly
But cherishes with helish care,
Theft murder, perjury.
Damn'd cup that the vitas preys.
That liquid fire contains,
Which madness to the heart conveys
And rolls it through the veins
Old Age Has Value