The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13

Hard Times and ths Remedy-Bishop
Newman CAns tor Action.


Hard Zimes and shs Remedy Bishop
Newman Cans Tor Action.
We ought to be the purest, richest, nap-
pieet people on tho globe Our national
wealth b nearly forty-Hve thousand mil.
lion Of dollars. enough to buy all Russia,
Italy, Turkey, South America and South
Africa, and which exceeds that of Great
Britain by $500. 000. 900 The receipts OF
our government are, annually. 1881, O00,.
700. with balance over all expenditures
OF nearly $le0, 900. 600 With less than
half CT our farm land under cultivation.
our agricultural productions. inclusive OF
1--we stock and diaries, is hard on to four
thousand millions of dollars yearly. This
Is exceeded by q thousand millions of dol.
lars from our manufactures The annual
output from our mines and ouarries is
over $250, 600, 600. Our 1900 miles of
railroad now IN operation give a net
yearly earning Of $270. ZOO, 600 Add to
these the income from our fisheries and
navigation and we have the magnificent
sum of 81, 900, 000, 900 q year
Why is there want In the landf Why
should any cry for breadi There is .
fearful waste somewhere Let 1t be
charged to our national drink bill, which
Is annually more than $500, 000, 1000 In
four years-in 80. 81, so and SIT was
%, 1854, 000, 600. How do we knowS From
the grain destroyed for distillation, g.
100000 bushels, put at so cents per
bushel. $34. 900, 600; from the capital in
vested in the liquor business. 81 900, 000,-
QUO; from the revenues to the govern
ment, $S6, 900, 900; from the GOO, 900 per-
sons engaged In the traffic, whose labor
is worse than lost. and whose wages in
honorable industries at So day would
yield nearly $500, 600, 900; and from the
cost to our national wealth of the 10000
persons annually made insane. the &c, 900
criminals, the 10000 paupers, the 10000
who die from inebriety, the 700, 900 drunk
ards, the 3, 000. 900 of tipplers, and of one
third OF the sickness in our fair iland.
Add $40, 900, 600 year lost to employers
from the drinking habits of those en-
ployed, and the annual loss is not far
from $4,000, 0000 00 England estimates
that one-sixth of the wealth producing
power of the nation is yearly lost by the
drink habits of her people.
The specious plea of the liquor men is
that they create demand for labor, and
give work to 100000 persons This is the
plea of lottery men, gamblers, opium
merchants, publishers Of obscene litera-
ture, and was the plea Of the old slave
masters, 1t is one branch of trade against
many honorable and useful industries
Wore the 5000, 000, 600 annually spent
for liquor applied to the comforts of life,
it would afford employment for 300 900
additional persons, whose yearly wages
would be SOC. 900, 900. and there would be
$3.50, 000, 900 additional capital demanded.
$593, 100000 of new materials required.
which at wholesale would yield TO the an
Iual income of our country 1913, 600, 900.
Our national liquor bill is, year by year,
three times as much as our people spend
for bread. moro than half the amount
for clothing and more than FIVE times that
for boots and shoes Over against our
142, 900 schools of learning we are com
PEELED to place 10000, drinking places
We are forced to offset gill 100000 for
education with $500. 000.000 for rum and
crime; and 81, 900 clergymen are opposed
by 100000 persons in the liquor trade.
who are licensed by our government. We
could afford to support at the rate of
81 900 year each of the 100000, and we
would then have a surplus of $500, 600,
600 Add to this financial waste that of
life, of intellect, of love. Of home and of
heaven, all higher motives. and the in
spiration to action is unreasonable
j. p. Newman in lions Herald