fifty million, six hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred and thirty-eight

dollars, being less than one-fourteenth the sum paid for liquors during the same year.

The total amount paid for pensions during the last twenty-one years is five hundred and six million, three hundred and forty-five thousand and forty-four dollars, about two hundred and ten million dollars less than the liquor bill for one year.

THE LIQUOR BLIL AND POST-OFFICE.

The total expenditure of the Post-office department of the United States government in 1881, was thirty-nine million, two hundred and fifty-one thousand, seven hundred and thirty-six dollars. If the money spent for liquors that year had been used to pay the cost of the department it would have given

What an enormous sum the poor people pay of their hard earnings to government for the use of rum, which is again paid to the law and lawyers to try, convict and imprison them for using it!

us free postage and left about six huudred and seventy million dollars for other

purposes.

THE LIQUOR BILL AND THE NAVY.

The navy of the United States consists of one hundred and thirty-nine vessels of all classes. Only fifty-seven of these vessels are fit for service. The money spent for liquor in one year would build and equip seven hundred first-class naval vessels, giving us nearly twice as many as has Russia, more than twice as many as has England or France, and five times as many as has any other nation.

The expense of maintaining our navy for 1881 was fifteen million, six hundred and and eighty-six thousand, six hundred and

The young should be made to understand that they are the seed out of which will grow future society and future government, and only as they are morally and physically perfect, will perfection come to the generations of the future. But how hopeless, how dark the prospect with free whiskey and free beer to tempt and destroy the young?

seventy-one dollars, only about one-fortyfifth the amount spent for liquor.

THE LIQUOR BILL AND CONSULAR SERVICE.

The United States is represented abroad by forty-seven ministers, who receive an aggregate salary of three hundred and twenty-five thousand, five hundred dollars; and one hundred and sixty-three consuls and consular agents, who, together receive three hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, making the entire cost to the country for this service six hundred and eighty-nine thousand, five hundred dollars per year, which is less than one-thousandth part the sum yearly paid for liquors.

THE LIQUOR BILL AND BREAD.

The value of the wheat crop of the United

Remember there are little children in the drunkard's home. Do you realize the sadness of their hearts as they ask for bread, and suffer with cold, or shrink from your gaze because of the shame of their condition, which they must bear on and on through a life of despair and finally to desperation in the end?

States in 1879 was four hundred and ninetyseven million, and thirty thousand, one hundred and forty-two dollars, a little more than two-thirds the sum spent for liquors.

The corn crop of the same year was valued at five hundred and eighty million, four hundred and eighty-six thousand, two hundred and seventeen dollars, a little more than three-fourths of the liquor bill; while the cotton production was valued at only two hundred and forty-two million, one hundred and forty-thousand, nine hundred and fiftyseven dollars, about one-third the money expended for liquors.

Who can longer truthfully say, "Cotton is King?"

I am speechless, appalled, at the deluge of misery caused by the use of rum; and the waste of nutritious grains and fruits that are turned into destroyers of the human family; and then again at the enormity of money the people pay for this destroyer, that would provide so much else that was good and useful to them. You who hold the treasure and make the laws, what are you doing, that this thing is permitted?

If the seven hundred and eighteen, million two hundred and ninety-seven thousand, five hundred and eighteen dollars, paid in one year for liquors had been paid for flour at seven dollars per barrel, it would have purchased one million barrels, or two barrels for each person in the United States, or ten barrels for each family.

Forty million bushels of nutritious grain are annually destroyed in the manufacture of liquors; equal to six hundred million four-pound loaves; twelve loaves for each person, or sixty loaves for each family in the United States.

THE LIQUOR BILL AND IMPORTATIONS.

The total value of all the merchandise imported into the United States in 1881 was

There are three guilty men in town: the one that got drunk and murdered his wife; the one that manufactured the liquor that the man got drunk on, and the man that granted the license to the manufacturer of the liquor. The name of the last one is the government, and he is at the bottom of the whole wickedness.