Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-09-25
MULBERRY.
oosr OF STANDING ARMIEs ANr
OF LIQUOR.

"a - y q n - I.sp egA.r 3.
COST OF STANDING ARMIES AND
OF LIQUOR.
The liquor bin Of the United
States, according to official IN
lycstigaters and Reports, Amounts
to more than T$60o,OpQ,Qoo per
annum. The cost-of the stand
ing aFmies9of France, Germany
and Prussia amoun6te about the
sum of s5o0,000,0O0 each annuis
any The United States army
costs about $2O,628,DO0. With
cheap lands in the greatest album
dance, manhood suffrage and free
education, the people of the U
nited States Ought ito be, the
most prosperous and comfoIta-
bic Of any people Oh earth. But
the liquor. bill amounts to more
than the cost Of the great and ter
rifle standing armies of, Europe,
and about as much as the whole
sum realized from, our foreign
trade, all put together. It a.
mounts to mere than double all
oule Statcj and county, and city
taxes put together; and any one
Iiylio wants to know can soon
find out to his own satisfaction
that q very large portion OF. the
current and and running aiming expenses az
rising from courts, jails, penitenr
tiafies, llmatic .asylumsrandi 0th-
er sources come from this debt
for liquor. The Pittsburg MINI
yactmer says: aIf We could be
relieved Of the consuming. evil
| Of intemperance, we should new
er again feel the embarrassment
of hard times whilst therearth
gives forth her increase, and or
binary healthfulness prevails:'''1i
THE Lord Provost. Of Glasgow,
speaking Of the tremendous loss
es by fraudulent banksfailnres in
Scotland, says that the drink
bill suspended ee nnte, half a'year wepld
refund these losses, about which
so much clamor raised and
leave the peopleofi1qs iihpfovea
health and with improved mo- mo-
ralityso The worlds talkipgi.a7
bout the, same everywheie4lqA
native philantllropist'o the East
Indies states that all the Benefits
conferred on his country b
British capital in telegraphs,
railroads. and improvements all
do not compensate her for the
Introduction of strong drinks
and their destructive CONSEQUENT
ces.- Selected ."'S sis De 10
JaG gGf5s - adt ri 5asIo
ALcoiioL nor NEcEssA Any 70 3
~ h2fl9 KaI LIFE. 10 li9iiiiiio2
This substance IN any of its
various forms is not a nutritious
beverage. 1t is not to any de-
gree on to any extent necessary
for the healthful support Of the
human existence; tits a destruc-
tive drug, the appetite for which
acquired and not natural, and
the habitual use of which carries
limits track poverty, disease and
crime, in allfcountlies.i That it
-ismot necessary forsthe support
of vigorous life is demonstrated
E-by the fact that millions ofrper-
SONS are. now found, male and
females in all climates who do
mot it as a food or beverage,
who do possess the highest
capacity for mental and physical
labor, and live to the most adj
Eyitnced age, and possess every
blessing Of existence enjoyed by
any portion Of the Human family.
This caniiot be successfully con-
l.ttoeerted; OH the contrary, the
injurious effects, of alcoholic
| drinks on vast bodies of men in
many ages and countries, the
confusion, disorder and distress.
it has everywhere brought about
has, induced scientific men in
different ages and nations to IN
yestigate the chemical and phys.
Illogical effects with a degree Of
care given to no other substance
found in nature or manufactured
by the art of man. = And the, re-
suit has been to. establish as sci
entific truths that the substances,
which are classed as food and
consumed, as nutritious, wheth-
er animal or vegetable, have in
themselves the identical elements
of which the human body is con-
structed and maintained, and
that intoxicating liquors have no
such elements of, nutrition; that
by the processes of fermentation
and distillation the nutritiyeI
properties of grains, roots and
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