Col. L. Maus, chief surgeon of the United States army, in the American Patriot for March, says: "The United States contains the following number of adults and children suffering from insanity, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, epilepsy, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, deafness, dumbness, blindness, physical deformity, pauperism, or criminality, for which alcoholic beverages are largely responsible:| Insanity |
200,000 |
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| Feeble-mindedness and idiocy |
150,000 |
| Epilepsy |
75,000 |
| Deaf and dumb |
100,000 |
| Blind |
50,000 |
| Physical deformity |
300,000 |
| Tuberculosis |
500,000 |
| Venereal diseases |
7,500,000 |
| Paupers |
100,000 |
| Criminals |
500,000 |
| Total |
9,475,000 |
"This is more than one tenth of our whole population." "Let those who drink liquor, and those who defend the liquor traffic, reflect on the amazing destruction of normal humanity wrought by alcoholic liquor." Mr. Verran, prime minister (labor party), Australia: "If the workers could solve the problem of the drink traffic, they could put an end to all the social troubles behind it."