The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-29

report for 1871, puts down 90, Col ~ as re.
caiyexi and accounted for from persons takiflg
out licenses at S35 a year each, and II thes,
had ali taken full years license u Woulu
have required 146,059 In number 70 nave
made nm this sum; but as some OIL tneHl lSaiu
Hess than full years license there mus. llys
been more than this number iice'lSeu. III
tbe same way the Department accounts loa
the recent Of ST46,G96 from those "eo y, l"s
sI0O n wear for license; and as some OF .neni
wouIJ nav for less than year, 'iicle M, Nus
have been more than 7,4G6 OF them. ineSt .
two numbers added together make aI i w,
the number licensed as above gwen. Inc
EIGHTY individuals who support uflhklnS
stcrn will require to pay its expenses, say
an my average. SO for rent, So to $40 for
,ua,ros mid 70 servants, and 80 as profit to
nroprictor; in all 50, or nearly SUI each.
ou rursr STORES THERE ARE NEARLY ONE HUN
DRIED AND FlfTy-TuREE THOUSAND,
and their total expenses vii! therefore
,mo,,ui to SIX hundred and seventy-scVcil
millions Of dollars, or about the same rs the
estimate arrived at above by different pro,
cess, in which the profits 10 the licensed
dealers were put at five hundred millions.
and the first cost of the liquors ut ore nun
drctl and sixty-two millions.
The State of New York has 13.S4G licensed
sellers, or one for every $50 OF the popGEi-
ton, while one in sixty to one IN ninety Oh
It's people are engaged in these liquor stores
The CITY of New York has 1,lSl licensed
sellers of drink, or ] for every llO OF tne
popula,on. While in 80 to III ~ OF It's
pcopic are engaged in drink selling. Massa-
cf;l>ctts in 1871 had S,G22 of its people IL
cnnscd to sell. and i'm every 81 engaged III
sc;l;n" drink. Pennsylvania had 14,1"l IL
censcd. or to every 40. Ohio bud l2,3',,
or one in every 21o. Illinois had 9.'G3 "
ccnSed, or in 2G0. Maine had ,Vo], OF
in 800. Other State; range between I'D wv
and in 600; so that OIL an cvcrlSc every 81
families in the land supports drinking store,
with It's two or three drink attendants.
These two or three attendants make up an
army of 100000 to 100000 persons, who, II
thev were not thus employed, nigh; be caIl'-
inr on an average $500 to 81 900 year each.
Thus withheld from rcrnunerativc work, the
nation lose, thereby from $:200,0OG,o0G t"
800, DOC. 900, which, added to the either out
lays already given. makca toia' "i
EIGHT III SuRED TO THOUSAND MILLIONS ~
DOLLARS ANNUALLY
n the cost TO the nation of the d'liha III
which or people indur,c. Nor /, s;''> All
if we could calculate the amount Us Which,
the effects Of drink iuclca>"s on lHdiclaI aha
prison expenses, there would he another
large item 10 add 10 this enormous Hihollh'.
Thee are net imaginative hSt'ie>. Is zoo
many such estimates are. but thc sober rcaI-
tiles Of the Internal Revenue reports so lar
rs the number of licenses ii concerned ana
if any one should think two to three more
than the average number employed IN each
store, OF 81 1890 TOO nuch fer rent. wages, m
come, and other expenses OF the stores, ct
him take hi: own estimate OF these items.
and he will find that by no possible scrlnp-
in:" can the cost u our drinks to TIC nation
hc reduced to less than 'cycn or eight nun
drcd millions OF dollar annually. or from
eighty IL Que hundred dollars for each
family.