The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-01

| ing alcohol and buy one pair Of shoes
costing $3.50, this would make a market
for $25, 100000 worth more Of shoes.
If they each buy $3.50 dress or pair
of trousers-total, $4,000, 0O-this would
boom wooden goods.
| If each should yearly consume one
more barrel of flour than formerly, at SIS
per barrel, $50,000,000 more would be
spent for flour. One dollar more each
| for useful literature would be 10000, 900,
and 150 each for underwear would be
15,O00,000 and ESQ hat or bonnet each
| would be $25.00O,0O0 for head wear.
In the above we have expended SIS
| for each of the ten million drinkers,
whose demand for these needful goods
| would create supply without overpro-
duction. They need the goods. This
leaves $50 each to be laid out for meat,
| fuel, furniture, bedding or other home
comforts. costing $3.50, OG0, 900 more, all Of
| which is now paid away for drink.
Now, to spend the one billion dollars
for twenty of the leading necessaries of
| life in proportion to the amount of each
| produced during the last census taken,
will make demand on the farmer by
| the manufacturer for 990000 900 worth
\
| of raw material.
The same money spent for liquors re-
quires only one-fifth as much from the
! farmer; here is gain of $400, 600, 900 to
| the farmer, which, at the average Of
1891 Gas per last census) produced by
each farm worker yearly, would give
work to 1,024,472 more men on farms.
| To manufacture the raw material
would require 372,836 men. But to pro-
duce one billion dollars worth Of Ii
| quor requires the work of only 50,179
| men.
| If, on the other hand, 1t be spent for
food, fuel and clothing, it will give en-
ployment to 1881, 40S men, which is l.
347, 229 more than now employed, who
will have work at good wages.
Any thoughtful person can now esti-
mate the benefits which would thus
come to the country, if the money now
spent for drink were paid for useful ar
ticles, to say nothing about the absence
of crime, poverty, personal suffering
and national disgrace. But if only one
drinking man keeps this pledge, the
benefit to him is very great.
1t may be held by some that the
above argument is theoretical and Eu-
| tOpldu, DeCduSe IL CdllllOl NC HUpeQ tldl
all of the ten million drinkers in Amer
lea would cease to drink and turn the
billion dollars now spent for drink into
| legitimate channels of trade This
ground is not tenable- One might as
well argue that the plan Of salvation as
laid down in the Scriptures is Ethiopian
| and theoretical, because every one will
not accept it's provisions.
This advance movement for total alb
| stinence is based upon true principles
of justice and expediency, and is prac-
teal to as many as will be governed
by it.
If only one man on earth accepts the
offers of the gospel and practices
Christianity he will receive it's full ben
efits here as we'll as hereafter.
The same may be said Of this move
nent If but one family chooses to be
governed by its pledge the immediate
and certain benefits that will accrue
to that family will be nearly as great to
them as though all the drinkers sign
ed and kept this pledge And if every
American excepting one man became a
total abstainer and turned this vast
sum of money into trade channels, that
solitary drinker would continue to be a
sufferer and his family and friends with
him.
So if every Christian who believes
in total abstinence from Christian
standpoint will show others where they
stand by wearing the badge and each
try to win one drinker a year to sign
and keep this pledge the transformation
of this country on the last of the pres
ent century will be Unreasonable. This
every Christian can do If they will.
Who will do it? Will not pastors,
churches, Sunday schools and Young
Peoples societies and clubs immediate
ly arrange for meeting or join together
and hold union series of meetings for
a week or more and form companies of
the Blue Button brigade, committing
the young and winning the slave to
drink from his course to this pledge
from a Christian standpoint.
The Christian Union is prepared t.
send speakers and workers to conduct
special meetings or a series of unior
services upon application to the Ma.
tional Secretary, Mr.. A. e. Yates, 2Ss
Lexington avenue, New York.
Among the National Committee Of the
"Christian Union" are prominent New
York business men, including Mr.. G. N
Crittenton, wholesale druggist; George
F. Langenbacher, the Broadway toy
merchant, and John S. Huyler, the wei
known candy manufacturer, who is the
originator Of the movement. The work
ers are composed of prominent temper
ance men and rescue workers, includ
ing the superintendents Of nearly every
leading Rescue Mission in the country