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Excerpt from Inebriety and Crimes MY dear sib - The enclosed is the substance of my address at the annual meeting of the Congregational Club, of Portland, at the Preble House, in this city, on the evening of May 14. My remarks were extem poranedus in the sense that they were not committed to writing and not designed for publication. They have attracted far greater attention than I anticipated, although, perhaps, not more than the importance of the subj ert justifies. I have for the past ten years or more regarded the multiplication of murder and other crimes of violence as, perhaps. The most alarming and darkest portents of the age. If anything that I have said or written 18 instrumental in arousing our moral, religious and patriotic citizens to the dangers of the situation, and to an effort to ascertain the cause and apply the remedy, I shall be abundantly thankful. I enclose an account of still another probable murder in our State. It is the fourth in the State capital within two months. Your obedient servant, C. W. Goddard. As the full text of the lecture has not yet been printed else where, the writer feels justified in reproducing it here, con fident that the Opinions expressed and experiences detailed therein will arouse unusual interest, because they must, in view of the recent death of Hon. C. W. Goddard, be regarded as the last public utterances of a man who, having lived in the oldest prohibitory State of the Union, and devoted many years of his life to the study of the question, found and pronounced Prohibition to be worse than a complete failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.