The Drinking Mania

- It is tytl tuüt mu Buui aubuaiiy o&pcuuou lui intoxicating drinks in the United States is six hundred and fifty millions of dollara. During the progresa of our late terrible and destructivo war, many were alarined lest the fearful cost of two millions of dollars a day should prove ruinous to the country. They apprehended that the debt could never be paid. The governinent must go into repudiation ; or, as the whole of this amazing expenditure must ultimately come out of the people, they would be impoveiished and exhauated with taxes. Two millions a day ! Beven hundred and thirty millions a year ! Nearly four billions in ftve years ! The enormous sum will never be I paid. How many are aware of the i ling faot that the people of this country, not the government, are payiug ia cash - not contracting a debt, the payment of which may be provided for iu the future, or postpoued indefinitely - hut paying in reaily money annuaüy an amount equal to the heariest expense iiicurred during our late war r