ENGLAND.
DRINK THE CAUSE OF CRIME
THE PAST,
I have .found that if tlio murders, manisltau gibbers, burglaries, robberies riots, ijwlulftcries, rapes, that have lhaplpened during my 20 years on the Bench, were divided into five parts, four of them would .have been the outcome of excessive delinking.—Sir Matthew Hale, Lord 1 Chief Justice (17th Century). THE PRESENT. After forty years at the Bar, and ten yeart. -as « Judge, I h«vo no hesitation in saying that 90 por rent, of the crime <:f this country is caused by indu'l/gcncp in drink.— Lord Alversioiie, present Lord Chief Justice of England, 1909.
THE FUTURE. If England con let be made sober, throe-ftnirfchs mf her gaols miglht be dlosed.—Lord Chief Justice Coleridge. The effects of Drank are everywhere, .and always- the same. The root of almost all l crime is the hideous tyranny of drink. — Mr Justice ifiawikhis. New Zealand's Chief Justice speaks out: — Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, recentfly sitateel in tJio Supiien.*? Court at Mastorton "That one liwlf the criminal cases wbicih came Before him were duc.directjy to drink. You vote to abolish drink and crime when you STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE.
(ADYEMTmUENT.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10468, 4 November 1911, Page 7
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196ENGLAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10468, 4 November 1911, Page 7
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