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Show i . m 3 THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND T8 t ATTENDANT EVILS, 1 ' The m0Bt conservatire estimate of : i our courts, and of tho thinking men 5 I ' the country", based upon facts gath- I I ere by r bureau of census, Is that f j fifty per cent of all crime, degener- j acv and Poverty, coming under the ' ffl, I perview of th oourts, the puWie char- . I itio and the hospItBlB, is directly ! I I chargeable to the liquor trafflc. I ! The revonuo dorived from the liquor 1 trafflc in New Xrk city for the year I 1 1A08 was 6f78BIB4.9Bf while the ex- If pendfturea of the dtjr for the same L tixno oa account of crime, degeneracy M T and povertj' waa J24.73B.060.96. Fity i VeT ccnt f the expendltores. would 3 ' lfc u eurmt received In revenue I from tho liquor trafflc, and you hnv M76-,146.10. which the people oi jj I York City paid for the privilege of VI 1 having the open dramshop, and for Ji Ubo further privilego of supporting il twelve thousand "able bodJed tjau. II vpers." " |