The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-28
TEMPERANCE READING.
THE RUM MAELSTROM.

IHE n JIM MAElS ROM.
Some Starting Facts and Figures Touch
ing the Liquor TrafIc-Enough Spent
Annually for Strong Drink to Pay for
Nearly All the Necessities of Life.
In lengthy and carefully-prepared
article in the Chicago Inter Ocean Rev.
Wyland D. Ball, Mcpherson, Kansas,
gives some authentic statistics which
ought to arrest the attention of every
thoughtful person, and carry convic-
ton to the minds of all intelligent
workingmen and political economists
as to the evil effects, from a financial
standpoint alone, of the rum curse in
this country. Mr.. Ball says:
David A. Wells, Commissioner of the Treas
ury DEPARTMENT. in mis- report Of 1861 stated
that during that year $l4s3,4gl SOS worth of
liquors were sold in the United states TO
this sum c. r. Fowler, now Bishop Fowler
justly adds S20l00OOJO for waste of time
shortening of life, Incidence, neglect; for
cost Of insanity. $36,U00.0J; for idIocy, S42-
OOUOO0; for crime, $36, 0JO.OO0; hospital services
and sickness, $l0OJO,OuO; pauperism, $50. 600 OD0
accidents, &50,OJO 900, making the total drink
e. pense for 1861 in the United States, 81, CO.,
419S6i. For reg Gus purposes were eXpend-
ed that year S35,Ov0,O05; Tor liquor, twenty
nv ~ III, t"aio'os fol POP ~
alcohol The entire cost OF railroads from the
- ahn,t1% tI 49, ~ } ~ W i'wt
year
Now for a Grand +oto1 tbet rvo ,,,o,. a it,t1o
more clearly see what fnnnciaT ,anpire me
Hguor ira mic is The Eonor. fratIic mi Of IsgT
we take this wear simply because M this
moment the most availahle-would pay for
all the following products of industry and ex-
pense of education for 1880: All mems and
women's goods cotton goods mixed textiles
silks hosiery and knit Goods ,yorsfed ,roods'
wooden goods, carpets. al tiourjne and ,yrjst,
mill products printing and publishing boots
and shoes, slUughtering, tanned lealhcrs, iron
and steel Agricultural imuIcments furniture
hardware glass taXut.ou for public schools
and the cost Of public schools.
TO proceed. The product value of the in
dustrips Of all the 1ranut act1rino. rs+oLlieh-
mcntS in the United States for ISSiyas 81 ,fg-
$40 1871 or only twice our annual Ifouor I'M
The total value of All farming lands in The
Unted States given for 1889 was SO ~, UgG, no
or but five times what is spent yearly
for alcohol The whole amount of nar,nG-
nent investments in all the pathway SYSTEMS
in the United States constituting in 1880
under lines competej and under mo
cess Of cons lructiOn o. coz miles vas
vaiued al $5.lS2 80 Su-, or only twice o,Ir an
nual liquor bill The gross earnings Of aIl
these lines combined for ISL wa, sos O3O On6
or less than Oae-third of one veal.s drink bilI
Which, think vow T-c ask l.iS hit hore hy, ,y,v
Of diversion. is The bonded ana bloated mo.
noYolv of this couut,y. rum or, rsfIroo,I -
There were in ls,u no .i Is niles of tenoran nh
lines and 81 -? m as Of wi1a mo rInss
receipts derived from onorat mo- thnsp lines
f0. the wear 1856 we're S1t an ,J3 * ~. ono
one hundred and si,t.ctI,' Of inc sIGr,1 onn,niI
paid for alcohol The. not ,,.coints ,rorn ami
S65.;S $500 out O, thes,. AN acfiluI 6ividrnd
OF s. 1886. ~. 45 was declared or ahout nnn-siy
hundred and tifticth Of the. ,aorI,. Iiruor nil
Which. we ask AGAIN. Sfmrly ia i;,I. tLa rnonot
ODv of HgurcS have cou,luar,.. ri ami I,h,,',g
interests most to fear, the Western Jnion mr.
the WHISKY union? Telephone sfaf srics in
1850 were not cOmpirte wiru ,,e.,,n.t 70
the number Of miles of wire but thp ret re-
ccpts Of the wear were S1,O 5If y,nirh s,Irn
makes scarcely il drop in the cra;I Gr,for
| bucket.
The entire expense OF our late civil war for
the five years included between the be@in.
ming of 1870 and the close of 1St4 was - - =
3d. 1g3. only little more than our iouor eE
pense for 1861. 4 wear of peace ana proSnaritv
in which our Goycrlujcnt.s war nv,nnsGIs
were $g5 g2i 4I5 or less 1hun oue.tvce,,1 100,
ond of the Honor eynrusf. Of me Srat,.s fo,
Same yc.. So we have in ,.,i1I n i,Ir,rit ~,
+r9lFc that auIu1iIy costs ms n, mons, 10 sew,
notbinlr of sorrows as nm rb gS fnnrfftbs 81
! fine entirc rebellion ana tvvire as r1irnb nc
| tIa war dIrinn us most aYuansi,,a ,aoI.'
| iSl4 Z e''
| There are TODAY 3lAOG unemnIoved vvor,,-
| in9rrnen in this country enTaoad sirl,nr in
| strikes or tramping IT. or SUING idlv in tho
marker places. THE winter, is now staring
| them in the face. and with il suffering. stnrva,
/ as,