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December 26, 1877
The Morristown Gazette
Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee
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The Manchester Guardian highlights shocking US statistics on alcoholism: over 600,000 drunkards, 70,000 annual deaths, 100,000 imprisonments, 300 murders, 400 suicides, 200,000 orphans created yearly, with 9/10 of crime and 7/8 of pauperism attributed to it, costing the government at least $60,000 annually.
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AN APPALLING CURSE.
Under the above heading the Manchester Guardian gives some startling facts to which we call attention. It says: Carefully prepared statistics show that there are over six hundred thousand drunkards in the United States, and that seventy thousand die annually who go to the grave -of a drunkard. Every year one hundred thousand men and women are sent to prison under the influence of intoxication, while three hundred murders and four hundred suicides occur from the same cause. Two hundred thousand orphans are annually thrown upon the charity of the world by this curse of intemperance. Nine-tenths of our crime and not less than seven-eighths of the pauperism is the immediate result of whisky, and at a cost, to the Government-besides individual want-of not less than sixty thousand dollars every year.
Under the above heading the Manchester Guardian gives some startling facts to which we call attention. It says: Carefully prepared statistics show that there are over six hundred thousand drunkards in the United States, and that seventy thousand die annually who go to the grave -of a drunkard. Every year one hundred thousand men and women are sent to prison under the influence of intoxication, while three hundred murders and four hundred suicides occur from the same cause. Two hundred thousand orphans are annually thrown upon the charity of the world by this curse of intemperance. Nine-tenths of our crime and not less than seven-eighths of the pauperism is the immediate result of whisky, and at a cost, to the Government-besides individual want-of not less than sixty thousand dollars every year.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Crime Punishment
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Drunkards
Intemperance
Alcohol Statistics
Crime
Suicides
Orphans
Pauperism
Where did it happen?
United States
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Statistics reveal over 600,000 drunkards in the US, with 70,000 annual deaths, 100,000 imprisonments, 300 murders, 400 suicides, 200,000 orphans, linking 9/10 crime and 7/8 pauperism to intemperance, costing government $60,000 yearly.