The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-04


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Several publications have recently
been made in behalf of the cause Of
temperance, which throw much light On
the liquor traffic in this and other coun-
triee-its growth, present magnitude
effects on society. DR.. Young, Chief OF
the Statistical Bureau of the United
States, included in recent report some
valuable statistics concerning the cost OF
liquor. His estimate for the sale of
liquor in 1871 was $500, 000, 600, nearly
one-sixth of the entire value of all the
manufactures, and SO, 057, $50 more than
all food and food preparations. The to-
tai quantity and cost of Intoxicating
liquors, from 1860 to 1872, inclusive, is
given at SO, 790, 161,8 1865. The total war
expenses of the United States and loval
States, from 1861 to 1866, were Sc, 1861
237, 600, being less than the drink bill
for thirteen years. This is the direct
cost. Careful estimates show sos. $50
persons engaged in liquor selling, and
40,364 making liquors. These latter
consume 90,000,000 bushels of grain
annually, at cost Of $50, 100000. The
receipts OF internal revenue for 1875
from liquor manufacturers were $751;
225, $685. The aggregate number OF
retail licenses throughout the various
States is 100000, from which tax of
$50, 900, 600 is annually collected.
Miss T. Il. Willard, in al address be-
fore the Chautauqua Temperance Con-
vention, said that America, in it's Cen
tennial year, is spending in rum as much
as it would cost to put five lines of rail
road from Maine to California, with all
their equipments; as much as it would
take in addition to that, to endow
university with $10,0O0,OO0 in every
State in the Union; to build $4,000
school-house for every 100 people in
America; and as much as it would take,
in addition to ali that, to put out at in
terest and pay for one teacher for every
100 people of the 40, 900, 900, in America.
There were SO, 572, O62 gallons of
spirits distilled in the United States in
1874, and 100,0O0,000 in 1876. The
production of beer for 1875 is estimated
at 279, TAG, 044 gallons, or u gallons for
each person in the United States. The
imported wines, about 10, 700 gallons
for each year. This would give for ten
years, at present prices, an aggregate
estimate Of So, 1868, 947, 1862, cost of spirit
uous liquors, beer and wines in this
country. This would make in 100 years
sum equal to the present real and per-
sonal property of the nation. There are
1913, 405, POI bushels of grain destroyed
In manufacturing liquor every ten years,
valued at 1923, 954, 842. II is estimated
that 1923, 900, 600 is invested in buildings,
machinery, land and labor to supply the
liquor traffic.
A recent writer, in commenting on
these estimates, says: eff all this was
turned into production, including the
grain, to go to feed the poor, and the
money spent in liquor applied to honest
and legitimate purposes, we should be
the happiest, richest, noblest and great
est nation the world ever saw. We should
be sober nation. Hard times would
Immediately cease, iails become almost
empty, poorhouses vacant, the labor
question solved, taxes vanish into almost
nothing, and the millennium would be
SS0u LII bl0 near IuUuTG.
DIR. Hargreaves, in his book s'Our
Wasted Revenues" gives official figures
from revenue reports and census returns,
showing that the United States spent the
enormous sum of 1886, 100, 048 in 1872
for Intoxicating liquors. In the same
year there were 70, $50 religious organ
izations in the United States, with
membership of 11,452,534 and 83,638
ministers. All the contributions for
benevolent purposes amounted to
$47, 1886, 495. That is, while we pay ST.
to support benevolent anu religious en-
terprises, we pay $15 for spirituous
and fermented liquors. The prema-
ture deaths caused by alcohol, as esti-
mated by DE-. Hitchcock, President of the
Michigan State Board of Health, amount
annually to 1,127,0 The same au-
thority estimates those constantly sick
from the use of alcohol, $4,000; mum.
Der made insane through alcohol an
nually, 9,338-being so per cent. of all
the insanity that occurs in this country.
DIR. Hargreaves, in his treatise, says
"The drinking system is directly re-
sponsible for 20 per cent. of our idiots,
40 per cent. of our lunatics; rs per
cent. of our criminals, 80 per cent. of
our paupers, and 95 per cent. of the
shiftless, ne'er-to-do-wen, broken down,
broken-hearted, miserable people Of the
commonwealth.
Some interesting statistics are pub
ished concerning the liquor traffic in
the eight Territories of Arizona, Dakota,
Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming. Arizona,
in 1875, had brewers manufacturing
fermented liquors, 1877 retail and 90
wholesale liquor dealers, who paid into
the national treasury Sc, $40. Colorado,
as Territory, had ~ brewers, S79
retail and 80 wholesale liquor dealers,
vino paid into the treasury $50, 143.
Dakota had 7 brewers, 179 retail and 6
wholesale dealers, who paid S7,O95.
Idaho had 9 brewers, 273 retail and 12
Wholesale dealers, who paid SIS. 994.
Montana had 25 brewers, 404 retail and
33 wholesale dealers, who paid $14.O25.
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