Chapter VI
Reading edition
CAUSES OF CRIME—INTEMPERANCE.
The Power of Alcoholic Stimulus on the Laboring-man—Attraction of the Liquor-shop—Terrible Effects of Drunkenness—Number of Criminals in City Prisons Intemperate—Little Drunkenness among Children—Great Effects of the Total Abstinence Reform—Good Influence of the Irish Catholic Clergy—Necessity for other Remedies—Cultivation of Higher Tastes—Influence of the Sydenham Palace Gardens in England—Effects of Parks and Pictures—Open-Air Drinking not so Dangerous—Museums, Parks, Gardens, and Reading-rooms, the beat Temperance Societies—Few Children of the Industrial Schools become Drunkards—Comparative Good Effects of Light Wines—Liquor Laws—Former Sunday Law a Happy Medium—The Habits of the Germans should have been considered—Mistake of the Reformers—Intemperance, next to War, the Greatest Evil of Humanity—Other Remedies than Total Abstinence must be employed………………………………………………pp. 64-73