Show QUEER USE OF FIGURES For many In fact over oer the beginning of or the warfare of ot tho teetotalers against It has hns h b cn en mind and d rind find Illustrated ed fd In song ong and picture that the tha greater part of or the crime with which society Is I IH III I traceable to In Intoxicating drinks drink Figures Figure havo hl been licen Adduced to demonstrate how much bet wt beter er off o 0 a n community would he be both morally economically If It there were wele no dram drain chops hop It Is I therefore a ci 1 sur Hur rl 1 to 10 ii hind find tim the other side also 1 II r re rented by ly h statistician It has ban been commonly accepted 11 as nil an all axiom it nil all the figures were vere on Ott one nile site Mite of or the argument I 1111 We e 0 find however howe that th t tile one gentle nan Dr Reich is III I tithIng taking the thu side Ido of the he drunkard According to the re rc retorts torts rort hc lie h actually maintains that drunk as 1111 a l ruin rUfu are amiable abhor crime and amid are a I x antI mild Ors rs In proof of ot this title the learned gen cn leman lItman quote from a n report on crime is itS by J the tho Eleventh census Anti And these arc ore the time That of crimes committed by adults against the timet government only 96 6 were committed by b drunkard That against lI property were Vere committed by hr total abstainers anti and an only 6 31 by hO drunkards That tj lT miscellaneous ml c crimes wei committed d by bO total abstainers nut only ollir 8 by J drunkards That 3 SO total abstainer In the Juvenile cIa III committed and only on fiS drunkards r Finally 11 1 Juvenile offended against tim the government and nail no Juvenile drunkards nt at nil There Is III i nothing In iii the th report to that Dr Reich Kolch Is III joking about the tho mat matter matter matter ter Ills III are arc to oil all appearances us 1111 8 formidable as 1111 that class cIas of or arlU argo argument ment can cnn be And tid they th remind us liS that Ihal many a n faddist tins lIfts no itt stronger proof for his bin particular hobby than that this fOo proof for tor or the blessings of ot It rt has often been ob nit observed served that figures can nm be bo made to prove Prose anything It If they thy can be hc em en plo ed In support of the civilizing Z IIII In Influences of th hut they certainly erin camu be found In any nn other cause e no matur how ho had bad And Amal yd ct It II Is III true trite that Iha t figures do 19 not lie 1 |