TEMPERANCE IN RHODE ISLAND.
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The Society numbers 81 900 strong. A good
host for so small State.
Since the commencement of the effort, the
number of the distleries has been reduced
from fourteen to one


The number OF annual licenses granted in
the State has fallen from $50 TO 179!


The city of Providence registered, in 1928,
209 licenses. In 1S43, 106. In 1S4l, Al.
Fourteen towns grant no licenses. Twenty
one local societies report the following facts
relating to the reign Of alcohol:


Thirty deaths by intemperance.


Four robberies.


Six murders and suicides.


One Judge rumseller!


Two judges opposers of the cause


Forty-three divources in ten years in one
county!


Five hundred and forty-six habitual drunk
ards, who consume more than 1900 gallons
annually!


Four hundred and ninety-two town paupers,
supported at an expense of at least twenty
eight thousand six hundred dollars, the largest
proportion of it caused directly by intemper-
ance and the license law.


-Four hundred families in distress by ardent
spirits!


Thirty-eight Incorporate criminals support
ed annually by the State in the county lails !!


Fifteen hundred members of churches of
different denominations, who have not signed
the pledge-including ministers, officers, and
others, who manifest no interest in, and do
nothing to sustain the cause. Some Of them
offer wine to their guests, and use this and
other liquors before their children and their
friends.


Seventy or eighty individuals in the State
are prosecuting the netarious business of sell
ling in violation of law. Thirty or more of
them reside in Providence.


Truly, mass of appalling evil! "It is
well to bring it OUT" temperance men May
no longer say, we have nothing to do.