WHAT STRONG DRINK DOES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 12.

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WHAT STRONG DRINK DOES.

It costs annually $1,000,000,000 in money.

It makes 50 per cent of our insane.

It makes 65 per cent of our paupers.

It is the direct cause of 75 per cent of the murders committed.

It makes 80 per cent of our criminals.

It sends forth 95 per cent of our vicious youth.

It sends one every six minutes to a drunkard's grave, or 87,500 every year.

In our own happy (or unhappy) America, in this enlightened nineteenth century, facts and figures show that 60,000 lives are annually destroyed by means of intoxicating drink, 4,000 commit suicide, and 200,000 orphans are made.

The crimes resulting from intoxicating drink cost the country annually $40,000,000, and send to prison 100,000 persons.

New York City spends annually $70,000,000 for strong drink, and only $3,000,000 for public education. In the State of New York there are 21,242 licensed dram-shops, and perhaps one-fourth of that number more not licensed, and only 7,000 churches.

In the State of Pennsylvania $83,487,000 is annually spent for strong drink, and only $6,000,000 for public education.

In the United States over 400,000 more men are engaged in the liquor business than in preaching the gospel and teaching the youth.—The Shaker.