A Temperance View Of It

If the worklng people of tbis country want to know why thcy have hard times every few years, we cuii teil them. lt Is not overproduction uor underconsutnption, as those phrases are comtnonly employed. If they had kept the $900,000,000 they spend every year for ttrung drink in thelr poeketa for the past live years of rood times, the present ternporary lull in manufucturing and business aclivity woiild fiml inany of them able to beur it witliout beinjr plnclied for the necessaries of Ufe, It is Ihe oveiconsumption of whisky tliat tnakes the underconpumption of fond and clothinx in this land of liberty and liqnor. The annual bilt for bread, mear, cotton, and woolleu goods of tbis great American peopie foots up a total of about $1,250.000,000. But iis animal bilí for whtekey, beer, and the taxes thereon is $1,400,000,000. In otber words.it unnecessarily drinks $150,000,000 worlli more than it uecefsarlly eats and wears. And the people who cominit tbis folly fVLiy ytarareaniiized that once in a few years they are bard up, andsome of tbetn want to lioist tbe ciniimunistic red tlay: and destroy every body else's property beoanse they have wasted their own sliaru of the nittlonal snbstance In rye-juice and otlier riotous fluids.