Show extravagance Se accord seconding cording ing to sta statistics the american people is it a very ex t ravil ant nation the cun consumption of intoxicant ts va including inc including ludin g wines and malt liquors for cor the year 1907 i is s given as gallons which would form a considerable ae pond if pou poured rea out in one place the use of alcoholic drinks of till all kinds in ill the united states tes 1 last hast year was 23 2 gallons per capita twenty years ago ago n it was less than 15 gallons the american people tax themselves selves s annual annually ay for alcoholic drinks 1 for coffee f ibe 53 for tea 76 As for tobacco the same authority I 1 says that the americans consumed c 1 11 umed in the year in in various forms a pyramid of I 1 leaves e L v e s feet square tit at th the P b iso and feet high in th this is pile there chere would be pounds 1 of tobacco this amount of chewing smoking gand and snuffing stuff probably represents a tax oi of one million dillars delars but this is i a self imposed tax and is pi patiently and with a degree of pleasure if it was a compulsory tax well would there not be some howling bowling tha drink bill atno amounts to about 20 2 for every man woman and child in the united states or per family bufa ava it is estimated that half liala the families of the country use no alcoholic drinks at all in the families where they are used young chil children dreu drink little many of them none women drink much less than men so we get bev to the conclusion that multitudes of the 00 people consume an av average crage of nearly gallons of booze per ear a tax of least per pe individual drinker now if those people should be required to pay such a tax for the estaba establishment ashment and maintenance of a high school in every county and city and fo for r the improvement of the public roads would it not be considered oppressive but in addition to this self imposed drink t tux ax there ther el I 1 is tino another ther tax resulting from it which abic h the sober tax payers havo to moet meet for which the drinker is largely responsible it as is for the ex canses of ci criminal minal prosecution building nuil ding and I 1 maintaining ca pen mid and poor houses so that hat the drinker has no right i bt to say a as s they do sometimes it is nob nobody odys business I 1 spend my own moneys money 5 his is extravagance and bad example deflects the whole comm corn m unit unity |