Deserted Wives and Intoxication

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 30, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 35.

Deserted Wives and Intoxication

A startling statement is that made by Magistrate Joseph Pool, of New York City, who states that the number of wives deserted by their husbands during the year in New York City reaches the enormous number of 7,700. In answering the question, "What is the chief cause of this abandonment?" the magistrate replied: "Intoxication, I should say, from my experience in different police courts. Drink is at the bottom of most of the trouble between husbands and wives, and drinking habits are usually accompanied by brutality toward the wife." What a terrible record the makers and sellers of liquor are piling up against themselves!