The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-08

liquor. The grain Is valued at S42S,95l, 81.
and 1t Is estimated that about S23O000000 i
Invested IN buildings machinery, land, and III
hpr To supply The demands OF the liquor traffic
Inc United States pays for the support of al
rs churches, ministers public and private
schools and colleges, missions bcncvolcn
work, and support of the Government, not owe
SjOOOOO,OOO year For It's dram-shops, liquor
sellers, criminals, paupcr. idiots and manitcs
funerals, orphan asylums, rctormatorics. etc
it pays over SlOO0OO000O!
The total quar- tity and cost of ntoyicatin.
liquors produced in the United States from
1860 To 1872 inclusive was S6,1S0,l6 ,SOj To
| tai war expenses of the United States and Iowa
States from 1861 to 1866, So lGJ 237 600 being
less than the drink-b bill for thirteen years.
The drinking system is directly responsible,
for twenty per cent of our idiots, forty per cent
of our lunatics, scventy-tivc per cent. of oul
criminals, ninety per cent of our paupers, and
ninety-tive per cent. of the shftlcss, ne'rdo
well, broken-down, broken.hearted, miserable
people of our commonwealth.
In 1872 the United States paid the enormous
sum of $685. 20,O4S for intoxicating liquors
During the same year the contributions for
benevolent purposes were S47636, 49j, or As
one dollar to fifteen dollars
The premature deaths caused by alcohol
amount annually To l,l25000. Counting each
year to be worth $500 it amounts to 1868 800,
600. Number constantly sick from the use of
alcohol, $4,000; services, at $500 per wear,
worth S49OO0,OOO Number made insane
through alcohol annually, 9,33S; at loss of
oS,259 years of effective life, $500 per year,
worth $40 800. Number of idiots from the
same cause, an annual loss of 3l9909 wears of
effective life, $500 per year, worth $l59,954,OOO
Making an annual loss to the wealth of the ma
nj In, l,,-s - Ina. l.,
Dor alone, $lG,Gll ,491 more than the entire in
come of the labor of the United States, as 1e-
ported by the census of 1870
During the five years ending with 1861 Great
Britain expended eI55 1899, 500 for liquors.
During the next five years, 1854 All $40, an in
crease of e2l9,212,0l1.
S20OO0OOO of money aDd 1000 lives are an.
nually lost in the dominion of Canada through
the liquor traffic
The following statistics show the consump-
ton Of beer by the various peoples of the world
-(hectolitres); Germany, 26, 533 300; Belgium,
S,ISS,6SO; England and Ireland. 3j,GS2, 59l ::
Holland, 1851 Austria and IIugary, S12,.
2li 500; North America, 1881 99S; France,
I ,0OO,O 600; Sweden 100000; Norway 2j3400 ::
Russia, 9,140,000; United States, $3.50 S,743,-
13i barrels.
America is spending for liquor every year
as much as it would cost to put five lines of
railroad from Name 90 California, with all
their equipments; to endow university with
ten millions OF dollars to every State in the
Union; to build a five.thousand,dollar school
house for every one hundred people of the for
ty-two millions in America
There are 1S71) DAB disttlcries and $3.50
hrewerles in the United States, with capital
invested in them Of S6G,00000O. The amount
now spent per year for intoxicating drink Is
SS63,OO0O00, an awount larger by $60,000,000
than all the expenses Of the Government, ma
fional, State and municipal.
There are A periodicals published in North
America which are devoted to the Temperance
cause. II of these are monthllcs, semi-month-
w. and the remlin Ter wcekli cs.