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