Show Alcohol a Cause of Crime Summing u Uj up in his article on Alco Alcor hol bol and the Individual ual in the Christmas Christ Christmas mas Dr Henry Smith Williama Wil- Wil hams Iiams says It will be observed that these estimates ascribing from one ono third to one half of tho the recognized poverty pov- pov poverty erty of the fatherland to the effects of alcohol are sin singularly in iu harmony with the tho estimates made for England by British investigators and with the careful statistics compiled for America b by tho the committee of fifty Such correspondences cor cor- correspondences r cannot well ell be accidental The They give secure warrant for forthe the belief that at least third one of all the recognized recognized pauperism in the most highly civilized civilized ch communities of Christendom results re rea re- re suits from bodily and aud mental inefficiency e duo due to alcoholic influence A similar correspondence of testimony shows as JS we have hae seen that the same tame cause is responsible for the mental dver- dver throw of fully one fourth of all the tins unfortunates un who are sent to asylums for forthe forthe forthe the insane for the misfortunes of two two- fifths of neglected or abandoned children chil chil- children dren dron and for the moral delinquency of at least half of the convicts in our prisons and of not less lees than four fifths of the i inmates of our jails and work work- I houses bouses |