Liquor Manufacturing and Employment
According to the United States census statistics, it requires $3,505.75 invested in liquor manufacturing to employ one man. In the ten leading industries of the United States, representing that same year a capital of nearly $3,000,000,000, it requires only $1,021 to give employment to a single man. Now, you can easily see that if you take the money used in manufacturing death and destruction in our domestic, social, and national life, and turn it into legitimate channels, it would give employment to more than three times as many laborers as it now does. O, but, somebody says, that would lead to overproduction. But, my friend, I assure you that it is not overproduction that is the matter with us in the legitimate channels of trade. It is underconsumption, because the money is wasted in dissipation and vice.—Selected.