| Show I t i L 1 SALOONS AMI i iI P W I i Some Borne time ago the Associated t i 1 I Kent ent the following dispatch dl from front lon 1 i J I ver vor er which was nB printed nil all over ner 0 the country Dun tn and oven even made the lie basis of f I ft i editorial comment I Td I ii It Reports of or tho the Colorado State to Prison i i I t association tho tim Denver I Associated j Charities and the tho Jewish Relief ocle tr J II i It ty t attending the confer It j j nice neo of thu Colorado state board bound of ot o oj j f charities charlUs and corrections yesterday it stated unequivocally un that a n cry ery small email H d per cent of ot crime and poverty mull coul 1 I ho bo laid to drink Their statements 1 came In reply tf to a n dIrect question byI by b bj j nov nl Father Win Vi of ot St 1 J t I c Leos church While nil all could I l c not give statistics W tv S 8 Fried J I i man ot of Temple who was wim fl peaking for Associated L 41 4 Charities ld that I 30 per Jer er cent Is III tho the ratio of ot alcoholic causes Clurs of Dr poverty c I tho the association deals with V V K I Il II H J l Collett secretary of the prison Ii t j I tion declared that the tho percentage of ot crime caused by strong drink was very ery low lowA lowA j A friend of DC the News Newl Mr Sir Gee Oeo A AH H Startup of u Provo 1100 sent lent a II letter of in I In to Hov It Tiny 0 Father Wm Wm m of nf oCHI I Ht St Leos Leo church Denver a u as to the tho truth of ot the thA statements made mado In tho the dispatch Father promptly returned a 0 communication In hi Inthe hithe inthe the Dinver De nver Express In which W V U J Jollett ollett secretary of at the Irison association ton tion lIa says say that he had been misquoted and and that the tha report overlooked the fol tol following 01 lowing Important statement What to mv mu carries tar far more weight w than tho the statement that from 75 71 to 93 5 per cent ent of the men who ore are In prison are arc there because of strong drink I Ione ii one nl at reported by the tha chaplain of oC ti jan tn Quentin prison Cal Cui a 1 number of ot yours years ego ago The fhe chaplain look took the tho census of the tho prison not by b asking the prisoners for Cor their statement but from tho the olli del records of oC eRoh vase vima and he Ice found that every man of the Inmates In that large largo prison prUan of some nome 1893 1803 population has ban been sentenced to his hii hi term tHIO of or Imprisonment there for tor u a crime which ho he had hAIl committed within tM walla of ot a 11 saloon This Thill Is a terrible Indictment of tho ho saloon Tho The Denver dispatch that made Mr Collott ColItt say oy that the per percentage of crime by strong drink was waif vas ery very low evidently misquoted him whether Influenced to do sn n by bythe bythe the Ulo liquor Interests or not to tho the gentleman demands this ex ox explanation |
