Alcohol and the Production of Crime
By Union Signal
Fourteen hundred and ninety-seven persons were committed to the Hartford jail in 1888. Of these, according to their own statements, seven were temperate, one hundred and twenty drank to excess, and thirteen hundred and seven were "moderate drinkers!" Our confrères, the brewers, deny that drink figures to any extent in the production of criminals, but we commend them to a careful comparison of this jail census with what they personally know of the "sumptuary" habits of the membership of any evangelical church of equal numbers. As they sell the liquors they need not depend upon confession, but upon their own observation in the matter.