The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-02
4 HEAVY. TAX on TOBACCO AND
s 2.- STRONG DRINKS. '2 -

+ -6..a STRONG DRINKS. -
The moro closely authentic re-
cords are looked into, the more en-
ormous is. scen to be the drain up
on tho industry, morals, and the
life blood of the people, by our
drinking and smoking usages. It
is not easy to believe that the viz
Etueus healthofeolair sgeneratieus
can be secured 0fsthH nerils ofan
OVERLOOKING vTEabontlag in large
towns be ave. ted, With the present
and increasing use of Intoxicating
liquors and tobacco. q
Let US take the measure Of this
tremendous burden upon the coun
try, by putin g together, q few fig
uses from the IL = Internal
Revenue Report: ~ al -
Return OF distilled liquors in r
ali the States last year were,
gallons -4s.-.....-..-. a., 423, 600
Goyernment duties pad en- --,--..-
all this. ,...-........ $50 ,5SI, $50 CO
Retail cost OF this liquor ut
only S4per gallon, is. $2S9, 100, zoe so
Amount of beer returned
was, barrels -. 5,5OO, 600
Government tax paid on
this. -. S6,3I9, ta6 90
Estimating retail charges
for this liquor, at $40 per
barrel-cost to the people $4,000, 900 90
Total revenue on tobacco
and cigars. $50. 1850. 7o7 90
Retail cost of chewing and
smoking, to say nothing
OF snun. -. ,r.,.-., ..-..-. lou,OOO,OOO. W
Think of this aggregate. Esti-
mating important liquors Ito be
added to. the obove sums as equal
to domestic liquors exported and
employed in medicine sad arts, we
gain this astounding result:
National tax for distilled ,l5'.s -r.r
National tax for fermented 1i0,o6O, 600 GO
a.. % tobacco O. 1z-la 1899
and cigars. ,..,..... g.. 150, 100000 90
Annual tax for stimu-
Iants and narcotics. S549.T00.0O0 90
No doubt this monstrous sum
worse than wasted-drawn, too,
largely, from the laboring classes
and families of the poor-isi a
great way within the truth. New
York, one tenth the population of
tue whole Republic it is pretty well
ascertained bears one-elght of this
vast burden of millions.
The State pays one-qnarter of all
the tobacco revenue ii. c. 1922
000( a third of the beer tax. Ii. G.
$2,020,000): and q tentk of the dis
titled liquor duties Il. G. So, 255,
O0O).
The destruction of $15O,O0O,0O0.
of property in the fires of Chicago
agitated Europe and America, and
aroused people everywhere in eff
forts to protect and heal. The re-
cent robbery of twenty millions,
by politicians in New York City,
alarmed the whole State. But
what are these sums, even. in com
parison to the yearly waste ruin
made by liquor and Tobacco.
. Can the industry and enterprise
long bear this levy of seventy mil
lions n year, without grave fiinan :
cial results? - ~ isd-aesE 81
And is it not plain that intern,
perate habits are visibly deranging
the. nerves and depraying the blood
and brain of our countrymen?
Some, at least, know that from
long continued indulgencics moth
ing but physical, NJ and NOR
al debasenent is likelg to come
to children. THIS is tie ggost fear
.ful thing of all. a
The tobacco statistics, ias given
by Israel Kimball, head OF the to-
bacco division of the Intern
al Revenue Department, present
enormous result as to the use of
this poisonous narcotic.
'He estimates tho number of
consumers of manufactured tobac-
co and cigars in the United States
atiabout 100000, giving to each
individual consumer an average of
IL pounds and IA ounces of tobac-
co, and 161 cigars, the basis of
calculation being the 95,000,000
pounds of manufactured tobacco,
and 1,300,OOO,O00 of cigars, on
which taxes were collected for the
fiscal year ending with June last.
The average would be larger if the
tobacco manufactured and sold IL
legally were added"
NtnetH.foe million pounds of to-
baeco, used in one year in the Uni
ted States! Think of it. One bill
lion and three hundred million CT
gars! This is enough to democrat
ize q nation; and we have no
doubt that thousands are hastened
to early ruin physically, mentally
and morally, by the use of tobacco.
But few. are aware of its demoraH
zing and corrupting influences up
on the human constitution. Its
effects are most directly opposed
to pure Christianity. It blunts
moral sensibility, impairs the men
tai faulties, sours the disposition
and teuds to dry up the inner feel
ings of the heart. What we have
seen of late has made these facts
very prominent. The use of tobac-
co is bringing heavy curse upon
the American people. Is it not
time for Christians to lift their
voices against this corrupting hab-
it. VIII not those who profess to
be looking for the Immediate com
ing of Christ set a good example,
and abandon the use of tobacco
forever trusting in the Lord to
give them a complete victory over
the appetite for the filthy wceedi
Be decided: Resist the temptation
| with an iron will f; with an eyerlast-
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