The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-07

THERE will soon be erected in a cemetery
at Edinburgh, Scotland, a handsome mon
ument in honor of Scottlsh-American SOL
diers who served in the war for the Union.
MIR. Wallace Bruce. United States consul
at Edinburgh, has secured from the town
council q plat of ground for the purpose
and the money for the monument was sub
scribed in 500 subscriptions by fifty per-
sons In this country. The monument will
be fifteen feet In height, consisting OF a red
granite base nine feet in height. sur
mounted by q bronze life-size figure of Lin
coiD. with battle flags and a freed slave at
his feet. 1T will be unveiled IN July or
August and the Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew
Will denver an address on the occasion.
A RECENT catalogue of o Canadian uni
versity gave q list of the names and ad-
dresses of it's medical graduates who are
living and prscticing medicine In the
United States to the number of 25S. When
one recalls the great number of embryo
physicians turned ont every year by Amer
lean medical colleges it seems surprising
that We should have to import doctors, or
that foreign physicians should ind an in.
vltiDg field here. Perhaps the reason Is
that we give employment to more ply
eiclSns than do any other people in the
world. This raises another question, for
why should it be soP We graduate nearly
fifteen Thousand medical students every
year. We educate twice as many ministers
as lawyers. and twice as many doctors as
ministers. In 1883 the United States had O
physician to every six hundred persons.
while England has one to every one thou
sand persons. France one to every 1900, and
Germany one to every $500. In other
words. we have almost twice as many doc
tors as England. more than four times as
many as France. II nearly i've times as
many az Germany. Z
A GENTLEMAN who desired authentic in
formation In regard to the so-oalled Gotten
burg plan of u government monopoly of the
liquor traffic obtained. through the State
Department.. two pamphlets which were
said to convey all the official information
on the subject. One of the pamphlets Is a
charter or license from King Carl. of
Sweden, to the G~otteDburg Public House
Licensing Company. granted Aug. %. 1865,
aad amended in 1StS and ISL. The other
pamphlet contains statistics furnished
bV the manager of the a5~ove-named CON-
pany. The company has an exclusive
monopoly of the business of selling splrts
In the city of G~ottenburg. which has a
population Of 5000. Under it's charter 1t.
Is required. after paying all expenses of
management and q per cent. annual in
terest on the capital invested, to pay the
residue of it's receipts TO the CITY treasury.
The statistics furnished by tho general
manager show that tue profits of 1856
amounted To 129, 662.65 krona-a krona be-
ing worth 20 cents American money. They
rose in 1889 to S.91l. $50 krOna. The CON-
sumption of liquor, wine. etc, In 1889. had
risen. by the common people. TO 1,5l1 1893
gallons; for the superior classes. 10 135, 377
gallons; in all. ~1.6i6,770 gallons. or more
than sixteen gallons TO every man, woman
and child in the city. We do not see any,
thing worthy OF imitation In this method
of handling the liquor traffic, Ii seems
purely nlercenary and directly conducive
TO the increase of liquor drinking and
drunkenness.