The per capita paid for liquor (fourteen dollars), is nearly three times the amount paid per capita for all the children of school age, (five dollars and twenty-seven cents), more than the per capita for all the children actually attending school, (thirteen dollars and ninety cents), and nearly nine times the amount paid per capita of the whole population, for the support of the public schools.

The average amount each person pays for liquor each year being fourteen dollars, in eight years it would amount to one hundred and twelve dollars, which is eighty cents more than it would cost to educate a pupil in the public school the same number of years therefore the amount spent for liquor in one year, would educate an entire generation in the public schools from the A. B. C. class to the graduation.

The number of teachers employed in the

Every dollar paid for rum is a dagger in the heart of some stricken wife or mother,

public schools in 1880 was two hundred and eighty-two thousand, seven hundred and fifty-three, and the amount expended for salaries of teachers was fifty-five million, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand, two hundred and eighty-nine dollars—an average salary of only one hundred and ninety-five dollars per teacher, per year.

The liquor money for one year is more than thirteen times this amount and if expended in paying the salaries of teachers would, in the place of one hundred and ninety-five dollars per year afford them two thousan.1, five hundred and forty dollars each per

year.

ILLITERACY.

There are in the United States, four million, nine hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-one persons

Every dollar paid for rum secures in the end, a passport to the alms-house.

over ten years of age who cannot read. This is 9.82 per cent. of the population.

There are six million, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand, nine hundred and fiftyeight who cannot write, being 12.44 per

cent.

The total white population is forty-three million, four hundred and two thousand, nine hundred and seventy, of which three million and nineteen thousand and eighty,. or 6.96 per cent. cannot write.

The total colored population is six million, seven hundred and fifty-two thousand, eight hundred and thirteen, of which three million, two hundred and twenty thousand, eight hundred and seventy-eight, or 47.7 per cent. cannot write.

These illiterate persons might be educated in the schools already established, where the accommodations are ample; but even if ad

Every second the clock ticks, twenty-two dollars and seventy-six cents passes over the counter for liquor.

ditional schools are required, at the same rate per capita as is now paid for the entire school population it would take but thirtytwo million, eight hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred and seventy-eight dollars of the liquor money to educate every person, white and black, leaving them a surplus of six hundred and eighty-five million, four hundred and twelve thousand, nine hundred and forty dollars.

COLLEGES.

The number of colleges in the United States in 1880 was three hundred and sixtyfour, having four thousand one hundred and sixty instructors, and fifty-nine thousand, five hundred and ninety-four students. The total cost of running these colleges was four million, eight hundred and ninety-five thou sand, four hundred and eight dollars. The total value of grounds, buildings and appara

Can we wonder that the country is filled with prisons, poor-houses, asylums and degredation generally?

tus was thirty-nine million, six hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and twenty-four dollars. The average value or the colleges and grounds is one hundred and eight thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five dollars.

The money spent for liquor in one year would build and furnish six thousand six hundred such colleges, or eighteen times as many as there are now, furnishing accommodations for one million, and seventy-two thousand, six hundred and ninty-two students, which is more than one-fifteenth the whole school population, and one-fifth the average daily attendance of the public schools.

The amount paid for tuition in 1880 was one million, eight hundred and eighty-one thousand, three hundred and sixty dollars, being thirty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents for each student,

Can we wonder that children are starving all over the country, yes! and all over the world, and why?