Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1888 — Temperance Notes; [ARTICLE]

Temperance Notes;

The faculty of«pornell r College have added An amendment Jto_ the rules of that institution, to the effect that students found guilty of intoxication, gambling or other gross immdrality, or of interference with the personal rights of any student shall be expelled. It is stated that the faculty are determined to inforce rigidly this rule, intended to suppress hazing and-intoxication. Dr. Norman Kerr, an eminent physician of England, believing the statements. of temperance people to be extravagant that 60,000 people died annually from the effects of strong drink, began as early as 1870 a personal inquiryin connection with several medical men and experts, expectifig to quickly disprove the same. According to their deductions the latest estimate of deaths of adults annually caused through intemperance is: In Great •Britain, 120,000; in France, 142,000; in the United States, 80,000; or nearly half a million each year in three countries aggregating a population of one hundred and twenty-two millions. Col. Sidney D. Maxwell,, superintendent of the Cincinnati Chamber "of Commerce, in his annual report recently made, says the consumption of beer for the year ending Aug. 31, 1887, in Cineinnati, Covington and Newport, aggregated 726,112 barrels, or the equivalent of 290,444,800 glasses. In menting upon this report the Liquor Dealer, a saloon paper, speaks as follows: “At live cents per glass the total amount therefore paid over the counter for beer aterne in these cities during the past year was the enormous sum of $14,522,240. Add this to the amounts paid for vinous and distilled liquors and the total becomes appalling.”