days in the workhouse. Forty days pass and
here is the same man in the Police Court: thirty days to serve his
time, ten days to get a little money and then another drunk. Some do
not know how many times they have been before the court. I was there
one day when an Irishman was arraigned. The Judge said: "Pat, how many
times have you been before this court?"

"Faith, and your books will tell ye," replied the Irishman. Judge
Price, the police judge at the time, said to me: "There are a number
of men, and several women I know in this city, who pass through the
courtroom on their way to the workhouse so regularly, I can guess
within a few days of the time they will appear." They pass like
buckets at a fire, going up full and returning empty.

There is an asylum in this country where, I am told, they test a man's
insanity in this way. They have a trough which holds one hundred
gallons of water. Above is an open tap through which the water pours
constantly, and of course the trough keeps on running over. The
patient is brought to the trough, given a bucket and told to dip out
the water. If he dips all day and has not mind enough to turn off the
tap, he is considered a very serious case. If this test were put to
our license lawmakers, I fear they would have to go to the incurable
ward. They have for many years been picking up drunkards from the
gutters and opening taps for them to keep on pouring into the streets.
Under this system the saloon keepers are playing ten-pins. You know in
playing ten-pins there is a long alley, at one end of which stand the
pins, while at the other stands the player with a ball in his hand. He
rolls the ball down the alley and knocks down the pins. Some one sets
them up, and to that some one, who is often a boy, the player will
toss a dime and say: "set them up quick." Does he let them stand? No!
he rolls the ball down the alley and down go the pins. The saloon
keeper has the ball of law in his hands. No matter whether a high or
low license ball, he paid the price for the use of the ball. When
temperance workers set up drunkards and they get a little money in
their pockets away goes the ball and they are down again. When a
church revival picks up a few drunkards the saloon keeper will say:
"Here's a dollar to help in your meeting." Then in his mind he says:
"Set up the drunkards who are out of employment and money, get them
positions, and when they can earn money again, again I'll bowl them
down."