The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09
startling statistics.

EDITORS DAILY NEWS The accom-
panying statement of some of the facts
and figures of the enormous cost of the
liquor traffic may be interesting and
profitable to some of our people:
In 1879 there were 1886 retail Ii
censed places in the United States, and
4, 497 wholesale, total of 156,115.
According to the official statement of
the United States Brewers Association,
held in ST. Louis, June, 1873, there
were 1886 breweries IN the United
States. For the year ending June 80,
1879, the total number OF barrels of
beer sold was 9,4733 61, or in gallons.
S41 ,O40, 800. At ten cents per pint this
would amount to $272, $50, 796.
During the same period there were
1887 distilleries working off S9,02S, $50
gallons of brandy, whisky &c, at So
per gallons. This would sum up s.,
742 $50. This enormous quantity OF
| drink produces enormous losses and
incalculable evil. 100000 paupers are
by it made dependent on the charities
of the people, costing at least 20 cents
daily or 800 per year, total OF $72,-
100000. There are $4,000 maniacs and
| idiots at the same cost of support, in
volving a loss of 100000. This gives
a total direct loss of $2,685, 274, S76.
There are indirect losses to the nation
which enter into this question deserv-
ing serious attention.
1t is q fair and honest maxim that the
Individual not engaged in a business
that builds up the prosperity of nation
and adds to its happiness and morality,
is so far destroying the nation. In other
words, he is for all good purposes q non.
producer On this basis, the time and
labor of all the employees of these sa
looms, retail and wholesale, brewerieG
and distilleries, are loss and hence may
be nbraced in the calculation. Allow
ing three persons to each saloon, gives
474, 345, and 8 to each brewery and dis
tillery, $685.; q total of 511 ,21O, a
81 per day, or $500 per year, involves
loss of $153 1858, 900. There are 1,4O4,
323 tiplers who lose one hour daily at II
cents per hour $42, 129, 800. There are 600
900 drunkards who lose half time at 81
cents per day foots up loss Of 10000
900. There are 10000 drunkards VIII
: die annually, their labor is lost $500, OOC
$50 suicides, lost labor, $45, 900. 20
murders, lost labor, $4,000. Indirec
losses foot up 1886, 107 800, or a gran
; total of $2,971, 4S2, 566.
This is equivalent to a direct tax
- S67, and an indirect tax of 81 on ever
man. woman and child of the forty mi
lion inhabitants of the United States.
= But there are other losses and of inf
itely greater moment. There are 1,OOC
600 orphans, 100000 youths corrupte
. and brutalized, 100000 confirme
drunkards, 10000 drunkards who a
nually drop into the drunkard's gray
$50 suicides, TOO murders, $50 rape
y 10000 manaics and idiots, 100000 rioter
thieves etc, preying upon the commur
" ty. All the loss and pain and angus
involved in the whole system of necs
sary protection, correction and punis
ment embraced in police, jails, judge
te prisons, executions, fires and shipwrec
heart broken wives, mothers, widow
:, orphans, and, finally Gods wrath al
"A condemnation.
- No pen can describe or tongue portr
the terrible evils of this entire syste
Let our people, then, who love God a
humanity, rise in their might and dri
.lv this terrible crime from the land.
THOMAS BURROWS