THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



A Startling 

 Comparison. 



The Greatest 



Commercial 



Problem. 



Total government running ex- 

 penses 459374887 



Pensions i59>357>558 



Losses by fire in the United 



States 158,521,000 



Net earnings of all railroads in 



the United States 358,638,520 



From the above it will be readily seen that the 

 annual cost of the liquor traffic to the United 

 States is over fifty-seven times as much as the 

 amount appropriated by our government to begin 

 the war with Spain, and over one hundred .and 

 forty-four times as much as the indemnity paid 

 Spain for the Philippine Islands; five times the 

 amount of the demonetized silver currency ; three 

 times as much as the nation's aggregate debt; 

 fifteen times as much as the tariff; six times as 

 much as the total government running expenses; 

 eighteen times as much as is paid in pensions; 

 thirty-five times as large as the war and navy 

 expenses; eighteen times as large as the loss by 

 fire ; and eight times as much as the net earnings 

 of all the railroads of the country. 



Add together the amount of the appropriation 

 for the Spanish-American war, the indemnity 

 paid to Spain, the demonetized silver currency, 

 the United States debt, the tariff revenues col- 

 lected, the total government running expenses, 

 the pensions paid and the war and navy expenses 

 for 1893 and we have in round numbers $2,497,- 

 548,339, which is $393,292,538 less than the an- 

 nual cost of the liquor traffic. Let those who 

 have been complaining about war taxes, pensions 



