Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-06-06

THE EXTENT OF TIE TRAFFIC N LIQUoR.-
| Rev Wm II Boole, in lecture last week in
the Seventeenth street NJ f. Church, in
New York city, gave some figures showing
in startling light the enormous extent OF
the liquor traffic He said
There are about ten thousand liquor
I shops in the city of New York The ProteS-
| taut churches number 300, and require 81,
/ 500 900 annually to carry them on. The
amount expended in the rum shops for an
equal time Is 500, 600 600. In one ward the
rum shops are 80 numerous that If they
were placed in a row they would line both
I sides Of Broadway from the Battery to City
I Hall During last year the amount paid
/ forru in the United States was 81 ,4S3,
/ iql .S65 or S43 for each man. woman and
/ child. The entire railroad property of the
country does nor exceed al value the amount
annually expended for liquors In the
] State If New York the sales by the retail
/ trade last year amounted to S2iG, G07 $50. or
/ $50 for every man, woman and child. The
entire amount Of money expended for -four,
meal, clothing, wo0ien and cotton goods,
boots and shoes. books. newspapers and job
printing two years ago throughout the
whole country wa, Sl30,000 600 less than
that laid cut for intoxicating liquors.
Seconds 10 the results. Governor Dix
admits in his veto that four-flths Of all the
crime, pauperism and misery Is due 10
liquor This means that 500 out Of the J.
coo prisoners on Biackweil'S Island are
there because of rum. The rgmsellers muir
der in the United States alone 10000 per
sons yearly. Ii sends annually loo. 600 men
and women TO prison. Murdered victims OF
the traffic average one every ten minutes.
Third-li Is wholesale and retail trade
in poison. There Is not a liquor dealer
from Fifth Avenue 10 the Fourth ward who
dare> to submit all his liquors to the ties, of
the chemist, and having 50 submitted il. to
put up the result on placard behind his
counter. There are No such things sold rs
pure liquors.
AL other efforts having failed, the ten
pcrance people Of this State must have re
| course 70 legislation. Moral suasion has
| failed utterly Truth and humanity should
/ be the platform of a great temperance party.
/ Governor Dix displayed a lamentable lack
| of judgment In yetoing the Local Option
/ bill. Il embodied the true ideas of popular
/ sovereignty. The people should have been
/ left 10 say whether they wanted liquors sold
or not The statement Of the Governor
/ that beer is "a restraint upon the use of the
/ stronger liquors l. not true. The Governor
/ Is mistaken. America. England and Ger
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