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Show TEMPERANCE DISCUSSED BY T. N, TAYLOR Liquor Evils is the Subject Discussed Last Evening Before the Citizens Club in the Second Ward Meeting House-Figures House-Figures Depict Startling Story, At a meeting of the Citizens club held in the Second ward meeting house Inst evening, Bishop Thomas N. Taylor gave on excellent lecture on Temperance. Tlio meeting was well attended and niusia wns rendered. ren-dered. Bishop Taylor said that it is argued ar-gued by the brewers that iu case prohibition was to be affected iu the United States, ono of the greatest panics would ensue, ns it is said i that the brewers use much of the farmers products nnd employ many people. Mr. Tnylor quoted statistics stat-istics in answer to the nrguinent showing that less than 5 per cent of the products of the farmers were used for browing purposes, less than 4 per cent of the manufacturing products and less than 2 per cent of the men employed. Now when you consider that it costs this country $200,000,000 more than the entire revenue from this tralfio for tlio care of crime due to drink ynu will, I believe, nt least agree with me on the start that we are $200,000,000 worse off ns a country than we would bo without it. - j We are worse off than if the j money now spent for liquor was put into the manufacturing and production of tho necessities of life it would not only employ all tho men that nre now employed in the production of liquor, but 1,8-J7.12'J more, nnd this labor would produce pro-duce $400,000,000 in access of what wo aro now having. Mr. Fnrwcll of Chicago present-led present-led some figures that even to the Chlcnpoan wero nmnzlng. lie ascertained as-certained that in round numbers Chicago spent $50,000,000 n year in saloons, or $1,000,000 . a week. He took the troublo to stato what might bo dono with tho money wasted In drink in presenting tho following table: Flour, 200,000barrels nt $-1.50 200.000 Groceries 2,500,000 Milk, l,2G0,000quarts nt 8 cents 100,000 Stoves, 200,000 nt $20 4,000,000 Coal, 500,000 tonf ot $8 .1,000,000 Wall paper 500,000 Carpet, 500,000,yards at$l 500,000 Furniture, 100,000 sets at $50 5,000,000 Cloths, 200,000 suits at $10 t 2,000,000 Overcoats, 200,000 at $10 2,000,000 Hutu, 200,000 at SB 000,000 Shoes l.BfiO.OOO Hose, 1,000,000 pairs at 25o 250,000 Flannel, 1,000,000 yards at 50o 250,000 Cotton goods, 5,000,- 000 yds at l(Jo 500,000 Wagons, to deliver tho goods, 500Q at $200 1,000,000 Workingnien's hJVusiiS ' ' ; six rooms, bath, nnd nil modern conveniences, conven-iences, 5000 nt $3,- 000 each 15.000,000 "After nil these things," he wild, ' "wo will have money rnontrh to j piv the jv.Hco department 5,505,-000. 5,505,-000. firo department $0,125,000, health departnientfinsfcad of $000,- 000 nt now) 1 ,000,000. And still wo would have leftover $1,000,000 for tho benefit of tho public school ' fund." Theso figures beconio soonoim-ous soonoim-ous that it is almost impossible for us to comprehend them. Provo receives a rcvenuo from her liquor, drug stores and saloons I class drug stores hero because 1 have been Informed by druggists that wero it not for the liquor they sold they could not keep up of $0,000. Our pnllro nnd city prison department cots $3382, practically one-half of tho entire revenue. Of course, it is not fair to charge this entire expense up to the liquor traffic because wo would necessarily need some peace officers in oaso wo did not have them, but when vou think of the number of homos impoverished im-poverished to such tin extent that the county Is compelled to assist them to get tho Iwro necessities of life, I believe tint in our own community com-munity hero from a financial standpoint stand-point the saloons and their productions produc-tions aro the most expensive things that wo have to contend with. W' spend hero nniiually, from the best information that I have been able to obtain $K2,(01) per your in saloons, sa-loons, which does not include private pri-vate buffets. Sumo estimate $01,-000. $01,-000. Think of this enormous sum. We aro clamoring for more schooling school-ing high school nnd advantages1 for our children. Tho money wasted each year in this traffic of Provo nlono would equip us with tho host schools there aro In tho United States. |