FINANCIAL VIEW. 



What more effective, pathetic appeal to the 

 head and the heart can be made than by these 

 figures? Two millions of tons of tobacco annually 

 consumed by smokers and snuffers and chewers ; 

 while from every part of the habitable globe are 

 hands stretched out imploringly for the bread of 

 life, which must be denied for lack of means to 

 send it ! 



In Great Britain alone there are not far from 

 three hundred thousand tobacco-shops. England 

 prohibits the culture of the weed, that she may 

 secure larger imports, her annual receipts amount- 

 ing to forty million dollars, a greater revenue than 

 she ffets from all the £old mines of Australia. 



In Austria, the duties from this source reach the 

 same figures ; while in France, where tobacco is 

 a monopoly, they 7 come up to sixty millions. In 

 most countries official statements show that it costs 

 more than bread. 



In the United States, we find, from the Internal 

 Revenue Report, that above ninety-five million 

 pounds of manufactured tobacco and one billion 

 three hundred million cigars are used in one year, 

 at an expense of two hundred and fifty millions of 

 dollars, while the taxes have amounted to forty 

 millions. 



In the city of New York above seventy-five 

 millions of cigars are annually consumed, and at 

 a cost of more than nine millions of dollars — 

 enough cigars to build a w T all from the Empire City 

 to Albany. 



