Show AND CM communicated it most be admitted by all that the liquor traffic is the chief creator and promoter of crime human experience confirms the teachings of science that alc bolic poison produces besides mental physical and moral weakness a vicious disposition which is the chief cause of crime aichel not onla creates a vicious disposition in those bo use it but it is the causo of such dispositions being transmit td t d from parent to child that of all the boys in tari various reformatories in this country ninety fite per cent are children idleness and intemperance are he primary cause lin citing crime stop the mighty stream of intemperance and idleness will of itself dg appear and the chief cause of crime will removed criminal courts police judges and city prisons will be in less demand when the evils of tho saloons ere lessened and not antu then the saloon is the mill which grinds out the victims of jails and prisons annihilate this traffic and the policemen will be obliged to find some other occupation besides standing as a guardian angel T over the municipality the tables of statistics show and figures are facts that nearly all the criminals in this land are brought to choir degraded condition by the uee of intoxicating drinks ninety per cent of all the murders ninety five per cent of all the riots and tumults eighty five per cent of all the burglaries eighty per cent of all the robberies seventy five per cent of all the embezzlements embezzle ments sixty five per cent of all the rap esmay be traced directly to the evil influence of the liquor traffic it was found alo of the prisoners in one of the most intelligent tell igent stales of tho union that of 1497 persons committed during one year according to their own testimony all but seven were habitual users of intoxicating drinks dr ELISHA BABBIS after inspecting the prisons of new york declared that fiva per cent of all the convicts were graduates of the saloon the state board of massachusetts not long since reported that four fifths of the crime of that state waa caused by intemperance judge NOAH DAVIS a mac whose authority cannot be disputed affirms that the liquor traffic is responsible for ninety per cant of the criminal expense of this country at a prison convention held in philadelphia in 75 it was stated bj one who made a subject of this study that if the liquor traffic bould be put down crime would be reduced more than eighty per cent and criminal expenses cut down to almost nothing even if we do not take into consider aaion sorrow and Buffering the blight ed homes and the cursed lives caused by the saloons does the liquor traffic pay from a financial point takes all it not more than the revenue derived to pay the criminal expenses which are caused by this traffic let us make a com parrison between two town of about the same size about the same intelligence and peopled with about the same nationalities one has no saloon the other eighty the non saloon town paya a year for its expense of haupers paupers the saloon town pays per year for haupers paupers pau pers the non saloon town pays for their police force 75 a year tha saloon town pay a year the city in the one city is often free from inmates the city prison of the other which is much larger is always crowded with inmates this instance may be multiplied by hundreds all of which shew beyond a doubt that the liquor traffic ia a great tide of evil sweeping the land with crime and poverty and death it is the prolific source of disease and depredation degre dation two hundred years ago sir matthew hale said if the murders and man slayers and burglaries aad robberies the riots and tumults the adulteries adul teries and fornica cat ions rapes and other enormities that haye happened in my time were five classes our of them would be seen to have been the issue and product of excessive this statement is true today it is a radical but a conservative state citizens of provo as long as our streets are lined with saloons as long as liquor is dealt out to men so long will our land be fall of criminals and haupers paupers pau pers let ua go to the very fountain head and source of this river of vice and cut off the flow there end the results will be purifying |