Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-03-01


o.! think at HE hlnhrd staggering
multitude ms they Siagger IN I" n
,lrunhnul'- hell, and let ynur energies
he aroused Ivy the Thought But This
picture. tearlu ms it il, does moi tell il
all; fnr it says nothing of the Ms yet re-
spectacle dram drinkers, who IRE rap
ally bpc ming drunkard it says moth
ing Of the Ms y't pure aud mnl'le boys
VINO will sOun I've ruln-'i ny This fearful
tieud; ii says nothing oi the ~retchet
women deceived by honeyed lies from
the lnity hei Ihts Of peace and prosperl-
~, who now sit ruined aud broken
hearted amid the dIeary darkness If
despair. 4 * 4 i 4 IL
the United States there are four liquor
salIers to every schml. aud four liquor
salrmns to every minister Of the gospel.
There are twelve hundred funerals Of
drunkanis every week, and one hun.
dr-d and Fifty thousand every year
There il annually distilled in the United
States enough liquor tn I'LL canal 100
miles hong, II feet vide and 4 feet
deep. The amount spent per year tor
Intoxicating drinks il l,rger by sixty
million dollars thin all the expenses OF
the government. national, state aud mu
nicipal. The United States pays for
the support Of all its churches, mini.
Iers, public and private schools aud
colleges, missions, benevolent = work,
and support IF the government. moi
over five hundred million dollars II
year. while for its dram shops, liquor
sellers, criminals, paupers, idiots, mani
acs, orphan asyIums, reformatories,
penitentiaries mud jails, it pays the
appalling sum of one billion dollars
America pays for liquor every year M
much IA it would cost To put FIVE lines
of rail r,ad from Maine To California
with all their equipments, to endnw II
university with ten millions Of dollars
u every state in the Union, or u
build FIVE Thousand dollar school
house tor every one hundred people OF
her fory,two million citizens. There
are in the United States me hundred
and forty-six thousand saloons against
one hundred and lwenty,eight thousand
schmls. aud only ffty-four thousand
churches. There are FIVE hundred
and sixty thousand manufacturers and
sellers of liquor in the United States,
twelve times the number Of our min-
listers, four times the number OF our
teachers, aud nearly double all the
lawyers, physicians, teachers and min
isters combined. In these saloons there
are five million elk hundred thousand
daily customers, one in every seven ol
our whole population, and, deducting
one. half for the women and children
it will be found that nearly every 9th
er man that you meet drinks more o.
less. OF these FIVE million one hun
dred thousand are annually imprisoned
for crime, at al expense of ninety mil
lion dollars, and one hundred aud fit,
thousand 60 down TO druukard',
grave, leaving Two hundred Thousand
beggared orphans, besides multitude
Of wretchel women. Such is the re
suit of one years work. Such is the
appalling truth, not drawn in fancy
cOlOrS, hut get down IN stern, reliable
figures, Tor these statements are no
merely guess work but they are takel
from the printed statistics spreaC
abroad over the land, and they arr
simply the statistics OF the Unitec
+ States; so that they give us only a par
Of the deadly doings of iutemperauce
, and even in reference to our owl
country they give us only the dun OUT
lines of the picture. The living realir,
f no mortal mind can grasp. No pei
can paint the groans, the signs, tn
, bitter walls, the tears, the anguish, tn,
, despair that lie concealed under thes'
/ appalling figures. = x Il
. Gov. st. John, in answer, to certain
. inquiries addressed to the Waidens q
various state penitetitiaries, out u
4 twenty-six replies gathered that tn
: crimes directly chargeable to the inHu
E ence of liquor we're in New YorI
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