The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

Drink-Sclliig aind Criiime.
and not a month has passed, in the revolution of centuries, which has not given illustrations of the pregnant
d&zic/? of Mr. Justice Keating, "Some of the saddest
cases with which we have to deal are those in which
men go into public-houses respectable and respected,
and come out felons."* The effect of drink in producing
poverty, and thence crime; the connection of drinking
and drinking society with misapplication of funds (not
the holder's own), and the resort to crime to replace
them; the incitement to crimes of violence by the cerebral influence of alcohol; the use of strong drink as a
means of deadening the moral sentiments and raising
the brutal instincts; the temptation offered to the commission of robbery by the spectacle of drunken persons
unable to defend their property-these are some of the
modes and means by which drink and drinking facilities
are conducive to crime in such a measure that of all the
crimes committed two-thirds are usually ascribed to this
single cause. In most cases, where persons of previously good character have fallen into crime-and these cases
are exceedingly numerous-drink is usually at the bottom of the connection; and though the "criminal classes" are not addicted to drunkenness when engaged in
their illegal pursuits, their fondness for liquor goes far to
space of over twenty years; and, by due observation, a have found that, if
the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots
and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that
have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have
been the issues and product of excessive drinking at tavern or alehouse
meetings."-(A dvice to wily Grandchtildren.) Chief-Justice Bovill says
(x869): "I have no hesitation in stating that in the North of England., and in
most of the large towns and the manufacturing and mining districts, intemperance is directly or indirectly the cause of by far the largest proportion of
the crimes that have come under my observation."-(Convocation Report on
n,ztecmfierance, p.62.)
* Ditto p. 64.-See also much other valuable testimony in the same section
of that Report.
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