p. 6 | Cost of Intoxicating Liquors

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 28, 1869

Cost of Intoxicating Liquors

COST OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.—When the late war was at its high, the expenses per day reached the sum of about two millions of dollars. Another destroyer is at work in the land, which consumes the enormous sum of four millions per day, or nearly fifteen hundred millions per year—half our national debt. From the late published statistics of Mr. Wells, special commissioner of the revenue, are made up the footings of the retail sales of intoxicating liquors in the several States for the year 1867, which reach the enormous aggregate of $1,483,491,865. Reader, have you any share in this business?