Show astounding figures mr scott anderson And eiBon delivered a temperance lecture lechtur 0 covairt at fort douglas last night in fit the course c a of which 1 lie i e arr e rented to his audience the fa following 1 1 mpr X astonishing calculations W we have not tested them in detail for the purpose ol of ascertaining whether bether they are correct but as assume sullie them to be so ao as mr anderson andersen is an expert if in that line these 8 not only convey a lec on in I 1 temperance em perance b but u t also one in social il and domestic ec economy onDray the ilon hon john job it P 11 1 st t J jolin oil tip an v 3 that is spent i kr r intoxicating into licit drin drinks ks i in n t the 1 ie 1 united n i t e d slates S t a t es e every v e r y year I 1 un understand 1 I er a t n 1 t h hit a t t h e s e fi figura g U r e 8 tire lire obtained loin from offic official ia I 1 sources and perfectly reliable jhc if be run gum is ia so po vast that very few even be beani 9 lit to realize thil hat it means in s silver ilver dollars dol lira it would weigh beigh 15 45 orto tou tons s in gold dollars it m weigh 2800 tona it if it vere mere in arid and placed one on the other all allowing oming nine to nn nit inch it would reach ON ocr L r 1 miles in or laid flat it it pi gro nearly twice around the world if it were mere in five dollar gold pieces arid and a man were instructed to fling one at a time out of a window or door every even second for ten hours houra t day d ay iy it would take him biru 23 22 yeara cars and f five ive mouths to thew them all out if an expert at counting bonev money had it in dollars and could count four every second mccond for ten hours a day it w s talio take 33 years yeara to complete the task the united population of tile the seven western Cb Cali califern forn a nevada oregon I 1 washington colorado montana and idaho and three territories utah arizona and new mexico is ia 3 allou ing five persons persona to a family that would to it a little over families uncle santis sams drink hill bill would gh pho a to ebelt of these families to buy a nice botand lot and 2000 2001 to build a ha handsome edsom e cottage and leave something to spare bpark but all this is sn allowed and lost there Ther oare are about twenty millions of roen men in the united states the money w wasted asted in drink N would buy each of them a suit ot of clothes costing 25 and give every one of them a natch and chain costing coating oa 00 besides if the sum M ere in nickels and joined edge to edge it mould make a chain that thai m would reach front from the earth to the moon falcon and bick back again or miles mile let lel us suppose it to be in ill flour fifty pounds to the sack arid and costing castins it sack this would build a wall six feet high find and two feet feel thick reaching rei chios from london to san francisco and back over miles if this hour flour were mere baked into bread it would furnish one pound loaves to every family in the union or enough to fee ceeil the nation for nearly four months in the year all this money is wasted in saloons if we allow eight lie persons rons r ons io to a saloon that gives us its nearly persons persona who earn froth nothing i ng but feed and fitten on the earn carningao car ninga inZa of i their h customers if three these r saloons nere mere placed side by side allowing ten yards to each tit they n would line a street on both sides over ove r miles long lone capable of re achma front from denver denner to salt kalt lake city chy deit atolli li |