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Show THE LIQUOR BUSINESS IN THF, UNITED STATES. , Tho vcornan's war against intoxicating intoxica-ting drinks calls to its aid an array of figures and facta on tho manufacture and sale of liquors that are perfectly startling. An industrious collector of official returns to the government, showing the amount of money spent in the United States lor intoxicating Hqucrs, during the y?ar 1S70, says that it reached the enormous amount Of one billion fourhundredand eighty-seven eighty-seven millions of dollars ! For imported im-ported and domestic distilled and spirituous liquora there was spent $1,344,000,01)0; for brewed and fermented fer-mented liquors $123,000,000; for imported im-ported wines $15,000,000 ; and or domestic wines 55,000,000. From these figures, it will readily be seen that the craving for the most pernici -ous of liquors is nearly two hundred and sixty-nine times greater than that for the. mild domestic beverage bever-age ' - ----- The above figures are those taken from the "official returns," but with the universal habit of making "the returns" on, which duties are paid as small as possible, the actual money spent on liquors in the United States would doubtless greatly increase the amount of the first figures given, probably pro-bably to two billions. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois Illin-ois and Ohio are, naturally enough, with their great populations, popu-lations, at the head of the LUt, and combined they reach $671,249,8-55. Miine, with its 'liquor law," is the lowest in the list of the large New England States, yet it returns 53.257,-015. 53.257,-015. California, young as -it is, j beats Massachusetts at drinking to the amountof nearly $32,000,000. The Territories are setdown atalittle over $14,000,000 but the compiler seemed seem-ed to think that Colorado was a State, and including that Territory, the whole Territories together wuuld reach about $17,500,000.' We regret re-gret that the statistics of the Territories Ter-ritories wera "lumped" as we think -something favorable to Utah would be found. In the Unit til States there were in-that in-that year 1S70 140,000 licensed liquor dealers and 500,010 persons en3gcd in thebusincss. If the places where liquor was sold were put in a row they would make a street 100 miles lon.and if all the drinkers were placed in procession, five a breast, they wouli make an army l-"-0 miles long ! The liquor drank nould fill a caaal eighty miloi long, fourteen feet wide" and four feet deep ! The city of 2vjw York alun- had 7,000 licensed drinking salens, which placed together in a row would have made a Btreet like Broadway, thirteen miles long! She tptnt for intoxicating liquors $00,000,000 which employed 35,000 persons, while she engaged not moro than 3,000 persons in preaching and teach ing in churches, chapjls and schools &t a coil of oaitf-.SXSrjO-Ao-'"- in the liquor business $110,000,000 were invested, whi' ;- "uo-luring "uo-luring ousiness in that great city only $60,000,000 were in use. The entire meat and flour bill of tho city was -e,uuu,ucu less man the liquor bill i Besides this vast expenditure of money, who can estimate tho great evils that followed in its train ? It is beyond all calculation! On that Manhattan Island there were no-fowor no-fowor thiu G5.033 arrests for intoxi cation and disorderly conduct, and 50,000 persons were 'in in.Htitutir.ns under care of the Commissioners of Public Charities. What an array of figures and terrible ter-rible facts thus marshaled by the temperance tem-perance reformers in their crusade against the source of five-sixths of all the crime and evils that alllict the country I- |
