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OUR NATIONAL LIQUOR BILLS

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

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OUR NATIONAL LIQUOR BILLS.

ESTIMATES are made from time to time, based on returns from the Internal Revenue Office, police and other places, hospitals, insane asylums, poor-houses and charitable institutions, from which it is calculated with reasonable certainty that our liquor bills amount yearly to not less than,
  1. Direct expenses, $600,000,000;
  2. Indirect expenses, $600,000,000;
  3. Intemperance burns and destroys property, amounting to $10,000,000;
  4. It destroys 70,000 lives;
  5. It makes 30,000 widows;
  6. It makes 100,000 orphans;
  7. It makes 500 maniacs;
  8. It instigates 250 murders;
  9. It causes 500 suicides;
  10. It consigns to jail 500,000 criminals;
  11. And greater even than all this, it endangers the inheritance of liberty left us by our fathers, by debauching the voters and making instruments for upholding corruption by means of the ballot box.—Domestic Journal, Dec., 1879.