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What They Drink In England

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Day
13
Month
October
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lord John Kussell, in a speech nimio at tho oonferon.ee of tho National Union for the Kuppression of Iiitoiiiporanoo, ovor whioh be presided, saidthat during'the five years enSínz with 1S7, íha temperato British people spciit for intoxicating liquen the Bice little .sum of 51 1,8 12,3 1") poiinds sterling - about twenty-ñvo lnindred millions oí' dollars. This íimuunt is about throo times as large as tho anual income of all railways of the United Kingdoni ; twico as large as tho capital of all the (iavinjs banks ; half as large again as the national revenues for the wholo time, aud íiffy times as largo as the colleetivo income of all the religioua and philanthropic societios in the country. Ve aro sorry to add, on thc authority of the samo competent witness, that the working classes pay by lar the grefttet sharo of this enonnous sum. Thc calculations given are made from tho amount of líquorg whioh p;iy iluty. The Remluticm, umag lcnrned that . pretty lady canvas .sci's for wonuyi uewsjapers are going about hugging the men in order to obtaiu Bubscribers, says : " If any ono connected witn liis paper ever resorts to such a courso to obtain subscribor, or rn advertiseiiKüit, we beg to bo apprisod of tho fact, that her ;onnection Wlth it may bc cancelled at once." Thvis it is that yoor girls aso checked in sry attempt to help themselves. But why couldn't afortuno bo made by starting out somo of the long, loan, bloodicss, scraggy woman-women, with directions to threstai to hug any man who refusea to " como down." . Thore's moncy in the idea.

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