witness receive more annoyance and suffering than do the offenders, though they may, at last, be convicted.

RELATION OF LIQUOR TO CRIME.

There are eight thousand, and thirty-four whiskey shops in New York City, the keepers of which have certified that they are of good moral character. Of these, two thousand and four have served their time in various state prisons; two thousand, six hundred and sixty-five have been confined in county prisons; and one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-nine have been "cooled off" in the station-houses; leaving one thou sand six hundred and sixteen of the number who have thus far been able to elude the vigilance of the police.

Willard Parker, M. D., says that within the last thirty-eight years one hundred thousand persons have died from the use of alcoholic beverages; and Dr. Parker means what he says. Four out of five who are taken to the morgue die of drunkeness.

The liquor shops of New York City, if placed side by side, would completely line both sides of a street extending from the Battery to King's Bridge.

There are twenty-nine places where liquors are retailed, not including drug stores, on five consecutive blocks in the best portion of Sixth avenue; and Sixth avenue has fewer liquor stores than any other business avenue in New York City.

Of thirty-two thousand, eight hundred and thirty seven criminals in Germany, in 1881, 43.9 per cent. of the males, and 18. 1 per cent. of the females committed their offence while in a state of alcoholism.

In Massachusetts, from official reports, it is shown that there is a decrease

of

In this country, government is an outgrowth of the people; it can not move in any reform till the people move for it. The people have the right and the power in this country to compel the government to make a law of prohibition. It only needs them to say, “Yes, it shall be so," and it will be done.

thirty-seven per cent. in the number of cases of drunkeness where prohibition is not the rule, an increase of sixty-eight per cent. in the number of cases of crime, and one hundred and forty per cent. in the number of cases of intoxication, where liquor is allowed to be sold.

The United States Commissioner for education, in his report says, eighty to ninety per cent of criminals connect their course of crime with intemperance.

Of the fourteen thousand, three hundred and fifteen inmates of the Massachusetts state prisons, twelve thousand, three hundred and ninety-six, or eighty-four per cent., are reported to have been intemperate.

In the New Hampshire State Prison, sixtyfive out of ninety-one inmates admit themselves to have been intemperate.

What should we think of a class of people who wilfully destroyed this amount of money every year-and yet its destruction by fire would be far less detrimental to the health and prosperity of the country, than this traffic in life, health and whiskey.

Of the criminals confined in the state, county and municipal prisons in Connecticut, more than ninety per cent. admit to the habit of drinking.

Ninety-three per cent. of those confined in the Deer Island house of industry are confined for crimes connected with liquor.

In Philadelphia, last year, thirty-four murders were each traceable to intemperance, and twenty-one assaults with intent to kill proceeded from the same cause.

Of over thirty-eight thousand persons arrested in Philadelphia last year, seventyfive per cent. were caused by intemperance; of eighteen thousand, three hundred and five persons committed to the city prisons, more

One man says, "O, I don't drink; I don't care how much liquor costs the country; it don't concern me.” My dear sir, you are taxed to support prisons and paupers. Only a very narrow-minded man, indeed, will maintain that any one is exempt from the cost of this demon. I say it does cost you something, and moreover you are accessory to the crime.

than two-thirds were the consequence of intemperance.

In the Children's Hospital in New York City there were committed in 1880, one hundred and eighty women for drunkenness who took with them their nursing infants.

Within the last twenty years our teachers have increased from twenty-five to thirty per cent. and pupils attending school, more than fifty per cent., yet crime has increased sixty per cent., about keeping pace with the increase of the traffic in liquors.

Judge Noah Davis, of New York, states, that in an experience of twenty-five years on the bench, he has found three-fifths of all cases of violence to be directly traceable to strong drink.

Judge Allison says, "In "In our criminal courts, we can trace four-fifths of the crimes. that are committed, to the influence of rum.

Stop the liquor traffic and there will be no more liquor appetites recruited from the rising generation.