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and its relation to heredity I shall necessarily have 

 to generalize the facts and give only such statis- 

 tics as are necessary to indicate the relation of 

 intemperance to poverty, pauperism, insanity and 

 crime. The comparative statistics here given, 

 bearing upon the financial and labor side of the 

 question are in the main taken from the Bureau 

 of Statistics of 1893. Therefore, those indicating 

 the running expenses of the government and the 

 expenses of the war and navy are much lower 

 than these have been since the war with Spain 

 and the expansion of the army and navy. The 

 other statistics, however, are relatively, substan- 

 tially correct for 1900; for while there has been 

 a rapid increase in the various expenditures used 

 in comparison, the increase in the consumption of 

 liquor has more than kept pace. Therefore, were 

 it possible to revise these figures and show the 

 relative expense and evils arising from the liquor 

 traffic at the present time, the facts would be even 

 worse than here indicated. 



Liquor and poverty go hand in hand. The 

 statistics of all civilized countries show the con- 

 sumption of liquor to be the most expensive and Hard Times. 

 harmful luxury of the people. The continued 

 cry of "hard times" is due, in the main, to the use 

 of narcotics. Over one-third of the net earnings 

 of the entre civilised world is spent for fermented 

 wines, alcoholic liquors, beer and tobacco. 



The following figures indicate the cost of the 



liquor traffic in the United States and what it A f . 



Annual Cost of 

 means in comparison with other expenses. If we Narcotics. 



were to add to this opium, morphine, cigarettes 

 and tobacco, we would have to more than double 



