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THEICHARLOTTE NEWS, MARCk 13, 1908. 8 7 he Cost of Rum to The Nation Estimated To Be $2,678,504,864 It is Figured That There Are 5,000,000 Idlers As a Result of The Pre vention of Production of Wealth. Of Those Whose Lives Are Shortened Through The Habit of Drink The Number is 60,000 Every Year. COST OF RUM TO THE NATION. By JAMES B. DUXX. Secretary Xational Temperance cietv, Xew York. So- To give the exact total money cost of the drink traffic to the nation is a very difficult if not an impossible thin?, so many are the elements which enter into its consideration. All that we can t!o is to enumerate some of the most important of these. The di rect cost is appalling. Jails, Asylums, Alshouses. The fol lowing is the expenditure, state and local, largely due to the drink traffic (1800): Judiciary, $18,721,383: penal and reformatory. $9,220,00."); police, ?2:,031.37G: charitable, $30,958,816. Total, $01,841,480. Of this amount it is safe to say that at least 75 per cent is due to drink, making a loss from this source cf $68,881,110. But this is only the cost of the state or local governments for the courts, of police, jails, poor houses and other methods of caring for the criminals and paupers, and does these causes. These may be safely estimated at as much more, another 68,881,110, making the cost of pover ty ?nd crime S137.762.220. Loss of Labor. The nation loses a great deal because of the prevention of the i count of ism, crime and insanity. The collec tion of information occupied twelve months. The official report of this bureau contains facts which the most ardent temnerance advocate has not asserted concerning the saloon's rela tion to industrial nrosnerit.v. The in vestigation has been conducted with entire impartiality, neither theory nor bias having place in this work. Saloons and Drunkenness. One in teresting branch of the bureau's inves tigation related to the arrests for drunkenness and for other crimes in license and no-license cities and towns. Of the 353 cities and towns of the state, there were fifty-three which were under the license policy during the year, and 260 which were under no iicense, while there were forty which, owing to a change of policy, were part ly under license and nartlv under no- license. This first group contained one-half of the total population of the state. The license cities and towns showed 36.24 arrests for drunkenness to every 1,000 of the population; the no-license communities showed 9.94 such arrests to every 1,000 of the popu lation. Arrests for offences other than drunkenness were 22.34 to each 1,000 of population in the license cities and towns; in the no-license cities and towns they were 10.26 to every 1,000 of the population. In Haverhill the aver age number of arrests for drunkenness per month under license was SI. 63, under no-license 26.50; in Lynn, under license. 315; under no-license, 117.63; in Medford, under license. 20.12, under no-license. 13.25; in Pittsfield, under license, 93.25, under no-license, 36.75; and in Salem, under license, 140.50, under no-license, 29.63. Saloons and Paupers. Examining the statistics of paupers, where the inquiry covered all tne persons iouna in the state institutions during twelve consecutive months, we find that ex cluding minors, about seventy-five per sons in every 100 among the paupers of the., state were addicted to the use of Livers Exchanged IF the active liver of the ' cod-fish could be put into the place of the torpid liver of the consumptive it would probably do him a world of good. Next best thing is colt's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. Almost as good as a new liver. The tfreat power of SCOTTS EMULSION as a flesh-producer proves that much of the activity of the cod's liver is contained n every spoonful. All Druggiete; 50c. an! CI. 00. Fiftw U r 3sr i Xorth Carolina sixty out of ninety counties. Rhode Island twenty towns and cit ies. Ohio 500 towns and cities. Pennsylvania 600 towns and cities and twenty counties. South Carolina all 'the state, except ten cities. Tennessee seventy out of ninety-six counties. Texas 120 out of 246 counties. Virginia fifty-five out of 100 coun ties. "West Virginia forty out of fifty-four counties. Washington fifty towns and cities. Wisconsin 300 towns and cities. n am P i lot include the private losses due tot-liquor, and three-fourths of these used all kinds or at least two kinds of liquor. Xearly one-half of the paupers had one or both parents intemperate. About thirty-nine in every 100 attrib uted their pauperism to their own in temperate habits, and about five in ev roduction of wealth on ac- j ery hundred attributed their pauperism persons being in jails, hos- to the intemperance of parents. pitals, asylums, or in any way idle i Saloons and Crime. When we reach through intemperance as hard drink-' the statistics of crime, we find a still ers. It is estimated that this number , more direct connection between the is over 5,000,000, and as the average ' use of liquor and the burdens which yearly wages are $354, this would show j rest upon society. To begin with, out a loss of $1,770,000,000, but we are j of all convictions for crime during the safe in placing the figures at one-half year under review, about sixtv-six in in placing the figures at one-half year sum. ?88o.uuu.ui;u. j the loss of others' la- this then there is the loss ot others bors occasioned by these hard drink ers: as not infrequently the working cf gang cf men in a factory is in terfered with by the absence of one or more through drink. We put this at one-fourth, 221,250,000, making a total of $1,106,250,000. Shortened Lives. It is estimated that 100.000 die every year the vic tims of strong drink. But put the number at 60.000. P'ach such death robs the nation of at least an average of seven years of labor, some English parliamentary reports say ten. Put the number at seven. This would make a less of $147,000,000. Misdirected 'Work. There is the loss which the nation suffers by hav ing about 1,000,000 men engaged in making and selling intoxicating liquors, not actually adding anything to the wealth of the country, but creating conditions which increase public bur dens. If rightly employed these men would add to the country's wealth $334,000,000. A Summary. We do not overlook in this connection that a proportion of the national, state and municipal revenues is derived from the liquor traffic. This is what the liquor traffic pays for the privileges granted it. It is right that this amount (which will be found be low) should be set over against the items of loss and the various expendi tures caused by the traffic. Direct and indirect cost of the liquor traffic: every 100 were for drunkenness. In nearly eighty-two cases in every 100 the offender was under the influence of ilquor at the time that the offense was committed. In more than eighty-four cases in every 100, the intemperate habits of the offender led to a condi tion which induced the crime. Disre garding the convictions directly for drunkenness, it appears that intemper ance was responsible for mere than one-half of the remaining cases of crime. Finally, excluding minors, the tables show that of every 100 persons convicted of crime during the year, 96.44 per cent were addicted to the use of liquor. COST TO A COMMUNITY. the sa- Amount paid for liquors by consumers $1,000,000,000 Value of jrrain. etc.. de stroyed Cost of crime, insanity, pauperism, etc.. charge able to the liquor traffic Loss of productive la bor 1,106,250,000 Shortened lives 147,000,000 Misdirected work 354,000,000 5,407,644 137,762,220 Total Revenue from liquor Internal rev enue $107,605,010 Customs 9,51S,0S1 State and lo cal reven ues 24,780,406 Net loss $2,536,504,377 In the foregoing tables the items charged to the liquor traffic, except the official figures, are moderate estimates, and many things which might, properly be included are omitted, because of the difficulty of putting them into dollars and cents. One can scarcely grasp the awful significance of the above fig ures! There are at present approximately 200,00 saloons in the United States costing the people a total f at least $2,536,504,377, each year as shown above. Each saloon, therefore, in an average community costs the people of that community over $12,000 annually. COST TO ONE STATE. By HENRY H. FAX OX, Quincy, Mass. Under the authority of an act passed by the Massachusetts legislature, the bureau of statistics of labor engaged in a thorough investigation of the re lation of the liquor traffic to pauper- Cambridge, Mass., said to be largest city in the world without loons, has added to her taxable prop erty several millions each year. She takes the ground that she cannot have the more than $80,000 that license WOUld 1 )'"" hr-- pc f"-c; tprl also ih ' ; '0' "'n . ' !,u-. a.-.e in tax valuation under no-license. So in ten years of no-license the city grew in population, in number of . new houses built, in savings bank, deposits, in value of street improvements more than twice as fast as in the ten pre ceding years of license in spite of the fact that four of the no-license years were 1S03. 1804. 1895, 1806. during which time the worst financial panic of the century was raging. Besides this, while there had been an actual decrease in property values in the ttn years of license amounting to $2,100,783, there was an actual increase luring the ten years of no-license amounting to $23,702,030 in spite of the panic of '93. While there was a loss in saloon license therefore of $81,000 a year, there was a gain in tax income of $357,000 a year, owing not to an in crease in taxes, but increase in tax able values. The rate of taxes in fact decreased from $1.64 to $1.57 on $100. Experiences like this in hundreds l and thousands of other towns and cit .$2,(,,s,o04 864 ies mjpht easily be recited. The fact is (perhaps quite contrary to popular impression), that the saloon is already banished from more than half of the area of the United States. In state where the traffic is outlawed: Alabama fifty out of sixty-six coun ties. Arkansas fifty out of seventy-five counties. Califorria 175 towns and cities. Coyorar o fifty towns and cities. Connecticut seventy-five out of 125 towns. Delaware half the state. Florida thirty out of forty-five coun ties. Georgia all of the state, except four cities. Illinois C50 towns and cities. Indiana 140 towns. Iowa all of the state, except twenty five cities. Kentucky ninety out of 119 coun ties. Louisiana twenty out of fifty-nine counties. Maryland fifteen out of twenty-four counties. Massachusetts 125 out of 175 towns. ' Michigan 400 towns and cities. Mississippi seventy-one out of seventy-five counties. Missouri eighty-four out of 115 coun ties. Nebraska 250 towns and cities. New Jersey 200 towns and cities. New York 70 Otowns and cities. traffic (1800): $142,000,487 "The Banker's Child." "The Banker's Child" will be pre sented at the Academy of Music tomor row matinee and night by Harry Shan non and his own company of excel lent players. "The Banker's Child" is said to be a beautiful story, and is given a perfect presentation bv this company. Seats are now selling at Ilawley's. The Blue Moon." James T. Powers, supported by an extraordinary cast and chorus will be seen at the Academy of Music next Friday night in the English musical success, "The Blue Moon." Harold El lis, Percy Greenback Paul Rubins and Howard Talbot were the original col laborators, but as the musical comedy was Americanized for the Xew York Casino where it ran for a year with Mr. Powers, others have since had a hand in it. The final result is a show of a familiar kind, the scene being laid in Burmah ; "The Blue Moon" is the po etical name given to a Burmese girl. The role is made somewhat secondary in order to keep James T. Powers in the center of the stage the greater part of tlio time. Mr. Powers who is ex plained as a little bandmaster is his usual droll self. In general the com pany is above the average. Not for getting the big Shubert chorus, "The Blue Moon" will be presented here with the same goregous scenery and costumes as seen at the Casino. Black Patti. The sweet darkey melodies which are among the distinctive and popular features cf the Black Patti show are ever increasing in popularity. The ne gro songs of the banjo, the 'possum and the 'taters; the plantation, the camp-meeting, and peaceful, slavery days, with their haunting melodies when first sung by Black Patti Trouba dours, quickly reach the home circle. Every year the Troubadours bring forth new gems of this style of music and the offerings in the new version of "Prince Bongaboo" are replete with those fascinating tunes and dance jin gle. Black Patti takes a conspicuous part throughout the entire performance, as sisted by the admirable singing forces of the company, introducing many airs reminiscent of "Slavery Days," while those in "Prince Bongaboo" suggest the modern style of negro songs. Among the numerous songs and dance hits in "Prince Bungaboo" are "Da gonne, I'm Happy Now," "Running Wild," "The Lady of Quality," "The Feegee Man," '"King Bongaboo,' and "You." The famous Troubadours, including "Tut' Whitney, the droll comedian, Marie LaCals, the "Tobasco" whirl wind; King and Bailey, eccentric com edians; the great English hoop-rool-ing marvel, the ladies' sextette, and "Queen" Dora, in her dazzling creation and harmony of lights, and two score more, and the swell-gowned Dixie cho rus will be seen in their latest "blazing sunburst of mirth, melody and dance" at the Academy of Music next Wednes day matinee and night. During this engagement the entire balcony and gal lery will be reserved for colored people. 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