The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-07-28
Tobacco.

Tobacco
correspondent OF the Sullivan N. ". Repub.
licun, gives variety of iscts respe eetipy tho
amount annually expended for tobacco, among
which are the following
Now just look here seriously, sht see what
another writer says in the City Of New York in
regard to tobacco. Mr.. McGreRor state, that
in that ons city alone they consume $4,000 q
day in cigets, aud but %, 500 for bread. We
will not partculariEe nny more now bu,
let US look at the national cost Of cigars. II il
estimated tha, there are 400 cigar ,nanuisc.
tories in this country, employing Z 900 hands
Assuming that each msnuIactory makes $500
cigars ~ week, which is as few as the maker
can live by, the total per week is 1900 600 :
and in year OF forty-eight weeks, the number
amounts TO $40 900 600. Al ~ per thousand,
the valuation of this qusnti,y is IS 0iO 600. and
adding h''y per cent, profit OF jobbsr and retail.
er, the total is $7560, 900. Adding the sum
paid ior imported cigars. &c, 1874, ,36l, and the
whole /. $l3,744 1854. Putting the smokers al
five millions, and giving es ch consumer bus
20 clgss year.i' is safe 10 say that the annual
expenditure in this country for the stuprndous
inlquily is $50 900. COOL, Says Dr. Csl,s. the
Amerlesn Chu,ch,s pay IS oOO,0OO annually 70.
shis poison in al! It's iorms,s tess than 6l,.
0OO.O 600 annually for ,hs Gospel in foreign
lands! Ag'in tina writer adds: the present an.
nuai production OF tobacco on the glohs ha. been
estimated by an English writer a. 1000 600. :
Ooo pounds This is smoked, ehewed and
sn"fad. Allowing this tobacco TO cost, on the
averng", ten cents pound. and We have SiOo-
OoJu ~ expsnde every year in pro lucing rox-
ious dtlstsrious Wssd Al least one and a hsif
| tim's as much more is required 10 manufacture
II into marketable lorm aud dispose I, ( il to
| the cansnna'. II this be so, then the human
ianily expended, spsvy year. one thon,a nd mil
lions OF dollars in the sinful qualification OF an
acquired habit or ons dollar for every woman
and child on the earth !! Look with M. a lit.
ur tnr'her 4; tins sum would be sufficient to
build two railroads around ths eaIih, at the
cost OF twenty thousand dollars pr mile IL
"onld build 100 churches costing $4,000 each;
or hall a million school houses, costing a. ono
each or one nillion Yelling hous 8 costing al
| oOO each! And further. il would employ one
million OF preachers AMI one million of Tea chpts.
giving each salary Of $500! Much more might
be said upon this subject, but l forbpar, hoping
that more able pens will do il justice. Friendly
basis OF this calc1lstion7 And il you are
christian, ora patriot. friend of God o. man,
can you r. fla with this stnp-ndous iniauiiy
Out in SONS manly way will you dc your par, 10
arrest its destructive power aroundf
Nsv for its. certain rsmedy:--.Mpsr rors
taste touch or kaadlc the norious weed. Trvit!
FgMALEs IN LARGE Cir..s-Aecording 10 tbs
Official census OF ;ne United ststes. token in
leoO, i.,rre were III ,hs City of New York 254 =
l06 males and 26l .44l females, making an tx-
cess OF the latter OF 1885 In Boston, the 10
were 65774 males and II l07 females, making
an excess Of the latter of 1888 In the Giiy md
County Of Philadelphia. ihrre were ly6,a9t
males and 2l2, 81 females, making 81 excess %
the latter of Is $50.
Making total excess OF females in the above
named CITIES OF % 548,
i According 10 ths New York StSte census al
Is 5, lhrEs were in the City of New York 302-
996 males und 326 9l8 females, ,rnskng n exces.
of iemsles Of 952 Ia the City Of BROOKLYN,
there were 97l29 males aud l03 l2l i.mues,
making al excess Of females OF 10 992 Making
total excess OF ismslas in the lies Of New
York and Brooklyn Of 81 1921.
| From the above Official statements il sppesrs
that the female portion Of the population is
rapidly increasing in the City o. New York aud
its vicinity. ln the Safe of New York, at
large. there were in 1855 l,727 650 males and
73S 562 females, making III excess Of frn,al g. of
only 10 9l2, thus showing hat the male papula-
ton largely exceeds ihe femalrs in the agrcullu-
| raj couHtvs.
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