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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 28, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 9.

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As Others See It

A LORD chief justice of England says: “Judges weary with calling attention to drink as the principal cause of crime. But I can not refrain from saying that if they could make England sober, they would shut up nine tenths of the prisons.”
A judge of Philadelphia says: “We can trace four fifths of the crimes that are committed to the influence of rum. There is not one case in twenty where a man is tried for his life, in which rum is not the direct or indirect cause of the murder. Rum and blood, I mean the shedding of blood, go hand in hand.”
A Boston district attorney says: “Ninety-nine out of one hundred of the crimes in our commonwealth are produced by intoxicating liquors.”
The inspectors of a large State prison report that “four fifths of the prisoners committed the crimes for which they are sentenced, either directly or indirectly through indulgence in intoxicating drinks.”
A prison association reports: “Of other causes, it may be said that they slay their thousands; of intemperance, it must be acknowledged that it slays its tens of thousands.”
From the testimony of physicians, it is proved that “one hundred thousand persons die annually in the United States as the result of drink. Seventy-five per cent of all crime, and fifty per cent of all cases of insanity, are attributed to alcohol.”—Selected.