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Show What Rum Costs. Judge Groo of Orange county, ape ft king before the American Temperance Tem-perance union in Cooper institute, said that Dr. Young of the bureau of atatiatics es timated that $600,000,-000 $600,000,-000 was spent annually in the production pro-duction and consumption of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor, while Dr. Hengman, a careful writer, puts it at $735,000,000 in 1872. There are destroyed annually in this country 40 000,000 bushels of grain, or a bushel for every man, woman an child in the Und. In addition to this loss, the people were called on to support tbe paupers and criminals createa dv me consumption of liquor. If the liquor traffic could be stopped, in one year enough might be saved to pay tbe national debt. The costly government ol New York is owing to the liquor traffic. There would be no need of five police juB tices and 1,500 police officers, he Baid, if it were not for the rum shops and criminals made by them. New York Sun. |