Poverty or Crime? Which is Due most to Drinking? his wife, abuse his children, waste all his earnings in ments on their side, even if it is shown that rum is Conditions are Improving. a rum-shop, and reduce his family to want That did person can doubt; that the saloon is the root of certain. The temperance people have plenty of argu- drunkenness is a most fruitful cause of poverty and drunkenness among the Latins of Southern Europe as many of the worst evils which now afflict us is equally poverty to drink. A writer on the subject says: compared to the Teutons of the Northern countries, nourishment and moderate stimulation without great heavier wines of Italy and Spain. The fact that the and the natural presence in the Latin countries of the 26 be some causal connection between the less degree of with making him temperate. Having this wholesome beverage naturally at hand he did not take so readily domestic unhappiness, if not the most fruitful, no can- President Eliot inclines to charge more crime than Latin could always quench his thirst and derive both try may fairly be assumed to have a great deal to do by the Moors. effort or cost from the grapes indigenous to his coun- to distillation when it was later introduced in Europe "The drunkard may never kill anybody, and yet beat