Show QUEER USE OF F FIGURES Foi many years ears In III fact t over eel Ii II tim the df of If the of at the against Ul t It lias preached anti and proved mind and Illustrated ed IH In III I ti rong em lI and a picture n letu re that t Imm L tie the th I greater tart part of or the tho crime with which society Is I let If ii II traceable to In lii drinks Figure have Im been hC ll adduced d to tn how hams ho much bol bolter t t ter Cr oft off a community would bs bi b both hoth animally and economically If it there ther were I Ino no drum It Is 11 l therefore a n cur sur surprise ur prise prist to III tIll other oIlier alto aiso tl by b statisticians statistician It hits has been accepted fin os an III axiom that nil the figures were u CIO io on one oat on side of the tho argument Wo to fluid find however that one olle gentle gentleman man Dr lIelah Is taking the tho side elite of the drunkards According to the re reports e ports lorte hue lio actually maintains tint th Jt drunk drunkards ards as an n a t rule mire tiro amiable abhor crIme and are peaceable and mild characters Irs ers In proof of ot this the learned gen gentleman quotes from room u ut report on crime crimean an us by hy the Eleventh l census consuls And these the l arc are the time That of or 27 crimes committed by hy against t government only 98 96 I were wore committed by drunkards That crimm against property were re committed by abstainers mind only by Jy drunkards I That Ii 17 miscellaneous nil crimes were ere committed by total and only ss by drunkards That total abstainers nb In the time Juvenile class das committed offenses ortt against t property and only 6 drunkards Finally that lint 11 Juvenile abstainers offended against t the time government and no mm Juvenile at nl all nil There Is f nothing In ha the time report to show that Dr heidi Heleh Is Joking about time the mat rant matter mattei tea ter His figures are to all nil appearances us as formidable as os that class of argument argument ment cun be he And they remind us that ninny many a faddist has hns no stronger proof for tor his hl particular hobby hobb than this proof for the th blessings of It 1 hurts lins often otten been ob oh observed served that figures can be made modI to prove anything It If they can be bo em cm In support of the civilizing In Influences B of ot the saloon they certainly can cnn be found serviceable In army other cause no matter how ho bad Aunt And lId yet It Is 18 true tr that tI Inures ur R do tip tip not lie He |