Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — London's Drun kards. [ARTICLE]

London's Drun kards.

Spirit of thi Tim'is. It is a well known fact that there is no nation in the world where there is so much miserable drunkenness as in England. And Ido not believe that there can be found a place in the universe Where such vile stuff that is called “pure spirts” equals this same London For years temperance societies, the Church, philanthropists, good men aud good | woipen have tried to solve a remedy for this rapidly increasing curse. The j Excise riotmnisrioii seenris paralyzed, ’• and the curse is as-red in the West End as at Whitechapel, onfv the subjects of the curse stand in a different social ',re- . laiioii. A few years Bijace - Parliament, undoubtedly With the best" intentions, passed a law permitting retail grocers to | sc-U spirits by the bottle. It was passed ias a s-feguard, hut Go«L only knows of the evii this law has c used. The in- ’ toxidation of.women of all grades has increased tenfold. >Sly dr uking lias been the.result;’and the grocer who has a good customer in a female gin bibber reaps argond financial reward, and plays, havoc either in the mansion or the hovel, for every grade ,of the grocer grasps at this chanci/df mcSftey ~ getting. There is no question that is so fully occupying the minds of true reformers ep this question of drink,- I W ould not have mentioned it in toy letter had I not,seen for myself, since those terrible Whitechapel murders occurred.* the awful condition of that people wio are degraded by fierid. " \v bat is" bred in the bone must be i marrow fat.