The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-06-08

sold or drdnt in all our land"
The Chicago Champion and the
Brewers Journal, both liquor papers,
say that the amount spent for intoxi-
csnts per year exceeds 81, l00,0 900,
600.
By careful calculations based on
the census of 1880 it has been found
that the loss in time, labor, pauperism,
crime etc. through drink is more than
equal to the direct expence of the
liquor.
Therefore over $4,000, 900, 0OO,is
wasted in the traffic. 1t would be
better to pay this to the liquor dealers
for nothing, because we would save
suffering of body mind and soul.
So far from counting it gain to
get 500, or $1,000, from liquor
dealer for the privilege Of selling Ii
quor it would be better to pay him
that much to not sell it.
OBy spending 1000, 900, 900 in
useful industry we could employ all
the liquor producers who were still fit
for honest work at good wages, and
have heavy demand for labor be-
sides. When our expenditure for
liquor was $500, 900, 900, DR.. Har-
greaves published the following esti-
mate in "Worse than Wasted" page
IS:
If our people, instead of spending
annually $500, 900, 900 for liquor, ex-
pended this sum for the following
useful articles, it would purchase about
one half of them produced in 1880 in
this country, as given in the Census
Report, viz:
First division-Food and food
preparations. ......... S47l ,666, 6l2
Second divsion--Boots and
shoes. -. ...... 1890. s4.025, l76
Third division Carpets(o 9th
err than rag). ..........-. 1886, 40l
Fourth divislon-Cot, goods
(speciiic). .....,.......... e,o45, o55
Fifth division-Mixed tex
tiles. 1910. 1851
Sixth division--woolen goods so, 1903, $50
SeAenth division - Worsted
goods .............. 1914, OIL
Total ........ $797, s22, 427
To this we may add:
Bituminous coal .... $50, 900, 900
Anthracite coal ........ $4,000, 900
Furniture ................. 40, o,OUO
And still have 800, 900, 900 left
from our 81, 900, 600, 600 to pay for
education, books, church and mission
work, and all else that goes to promote
the happiness of home and the good
order Of society.
We should still have in reserve all
the 81, 900, 900, 900 of indirect loss
which would be saved by prohibition.
This would rent better grade of
houses, and build new ones on the
installment plan. Beautiful new su-
burbs would spring up all around our
cities. 1t would buy pictures, mus-
cal instruments and thouaand arti-
cles of comfort and luxury which make
the world brighter and happier, but
which now, to vast numbers of our
wage, workers are hopelessly denied.
But wage workers are also women,
and, alas, children. How will prohi-
bition help them2
First of all by thinning the labor
market. There are multitudes OF
women there now who should not be
there at all Any one who knows
what home may be to the man in lifes
rough tolls and conflicts, to childhood
that it may grow to humanity's full
promise, knows that it is life work
for any woman to make such home
The trouble is rs Mrs. Diaz has ex
pressed it, that, doing her utmost
"there is not enough of her to go a
round" Now, no human being car
do two life works in one lifetime. i
home is to be what it ought to be
woman must give her life to it. L
she gives her life to something else
home will not be what il ought TO