1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 
BUSINESS BITS. 
A. W. Gray’s Sons, Middletown Springs, Vt., will send free a 
descriptive catalogue of their horse-powers, thrashing machines 
and wood-cutting machinery. Their goods are first-class. 
John Bauscher Jr., Freeport, Ill., wishes customers—like every 
other business man. For 10 cents he will send you his catalogue 
and poultry guide, you know that poultry can’t guide them¬ 
selves ! 
No other farm poultry are so profitable as ducks. No other 
ducks equal the Pekins for profit. No Pekins excel those of the 
Atlantic Farm at Speonk, I*. I.; 1,100 of them are laying fertile 
eggs for you if you wish them. See the advertisement. 
“ Practical Hints to Builders ” is the title of a pamphlet sent 
by the National Sheet Metal Roofing Co., Jersey City, N. J. This 
book will tell you all about metal shingles, roofs and gutters. 
Don’t try to build a house till you know about this important 
matter. 
The discussion of wide tires for country roads has created a 
demand for wide tires not only for road, but also for farm use, and 
different manufacturers have set about supplying the demand. 
The Havana Metal Wheel Co., Havana, Ill., supplies a wide-tire 
wheel ready to put on the wagon. 
Every stable and every house for that matter, ought to be sup¬ 
plied with a bottle of good liniment. If on hand when needed, it 
will often save a horse from permanent blemishes. There is prob¬ 
ably no better liniment than Tuttle’s elixir to have in the stable. 
To show its value, Dr. S. A. Tuttle, 27 Beverly St., Boston, Mass., 
sends a small sample free to any one who sends three two-cent 
stamps for postage on it. If you have no other send for a sample. 
The potato bugs are sure to be on hand before your crop can be 
dug. They will be hungry, and if you don’t get ready for them, 
there will be fat bugs and lean potatoes. Kill the bugs. How ? 
Feed them Paris-green. You can’t hold it in your hand and call 
the bugs to come and eat it. You must put it right before them 
where they can’t help tasting it. The Aspinwall Mfg. Co., Jackson, 
Mich., make the machine to put it there. You know them. They 
make that famous potato planter. Now they have a machine for 
killing the bugs. _ 
THE TRIBUTE TO LIQUOR. 
Our artist has given us a picture on the first page 
that needs but little comment. With a few strokes of 
his pen, he has showD us the temperance situation as 
it stands in many of our country neighborhoods to¬ 
day. Here are two intelligent looking men almost 
ready to come to blows over a ham (the tariff), while 
right behind them two bulldogs are making away 
with the rest of the hog. If that isn’t the situation 
in many country districts to-day, we want to have the 
true one described right off. We find many farmers 
who seem to be tariff crazy. They talk tariff day 
after day, well knowing that there is no possible way 
of changing our present tariff laws for at least two 
years, while right under their noses great political 
issues are being worked out that injure them far more 
than any tariff ever can. The liquor question and the 
financial question, are of far more importance to the 
average farmer than the question of customs duties. 
We purpose to give you some figures this week about 
the liquor business that ought to wipe the tariff off 
your tongue for a good while. What does the tariff 
amount to in dollars and cents ? Here is a list of the 
yearly amounts received by the Government in duties 
on imported goods : 
Duty per Duty per 
Full Am’t. Capita. Full Am’t. Capita. 
1889 .$223,832,741.69 $3.60 1892.$177,452,964.15 $2.66 
1890 . 229,668,584.57 3.62 1893. 199,143,678.00 2.97 
1891 . 219,522,205.23 3.39 1894. 129,558,892.00 1.90 
In 1894, therefore, this big tariff yielded the Govern¬ 
ment in revenue $ 129,558,892, or $1.90 for each man, 
woman and child. 
Now let’s see what the liquor question amounts 
to ! In this same year, 1894, the people of the United 
States consumed the following quantities of liquor : 
Gallons. 
Malt liquor.1,036,319,222 
Wine. 21,293,124 
Distilled liquor. 90,541,209 
Total.1,148,153,555 
That is an average of 16.82 gallons for each man, 
woman and child in the country. 
Many different estimates are given as to the value 
of this immense flood of liquor as sold at retail. 
From the fairest basis we can obtain, we conclude 
that the liquor trade in 1894 represented the transfer 
of cash to the amount of 
$1,200,000,000 ^jj 
The tariff simply isn’t within gunshot of it. Here 
are a few figures from the last United States statistical 
abstract for comparison : 
ONE year’s record. 
Value of liquors consumed . 
Total farm mortgages. 
Total cost of education and schools. 
Pension and charities. 
Postal service. 
Total taxes. 
Telegraphic receipts. 
Net railroad earnings. 
Total coal product. 
Agricultural implement manufacturing.... 
Boots and shoes. 
Bread and bakery products. 
Carpentering. 
Carriages and wagons. 
All clothing. 
Cotton goods. 
Flour and grist mill products. 
Foundry and machine shops. 
Furniture. 
Iron and steel. 
Leather... 
Lumber and mill products. 
Printing and publishing. 
Slaughtering and packing. 
Sugar and molasses. 
$1,200,000,000 
1,085,995,960 
162,794,148 
146,895,671 
66,259,547 
471,365,140 
21,582,655 
358,648,918 
186,624,376 
81,272,651 
220,649,358 
128,421,535 
281,105,162 
114,551,907 
377,238,750 
267,981,724 
513,971,474 
412,701,872 
94,876,722 
430,954,348 
138,282,001 
403,667,575 
274,083,914 
561,611,668 
123,118,259 
Woolen goods 
212,772,629 
It will thus be seen that the liquor trade dwarfs many 
of our great industries in importance. What good 
does it do ? The only good points claimed for it that 
we have ever heard of, are that it produces labor for 
many workmen, pays heavy license fees and also fur¬ 
nishes a great market for grain and thus helps the 
farmer by keeping up prices. Let’s see what the 
figures say about that! 
STATISTICS OP LKJUOR BUSINESS. 
Number of hands engaged. 41,425 
Wages paid.$31,678,166 
Wheat utilized, bushels. 97,(XX) 
Rye utilized, bushels. 5,521,202 
Corn utilized, bushels. 19,770,559 
Total liquor licenses.$24,786,496 
We have no record of the number of barkeepers and 
sellers engaged in the Wade. The above figures rep¬ 
resent the manufacture of liquors. The total public 
expenses of this country, State and national, in 1890, 
were $915,954,055 ! 
Now we submit this thought to you—as a reasonable 
man—that a business carrying more cash than the 
total expenses of this country, ought to be wonderfully 
productive of good, or else it is a dangerous thing. 
Here is a great trade worth more than all the woolen 
goods, all the boots and shoes, all the clothing, all the 
leather, and all the flour put together, of which no 
good can be said except that it pays $24,786,49(5 in 
license fees, and provides employment for 41,425 per¬ 
sons. On the other hand, think what a curse it car¬ 
ries with it. The $23,934,376 required for police in one 
year, the $12,381,425 spent in penal and reformatory 
institutions, a large share of the $23,071,075 spent in 
conducting our courts, may be charged almost en¬ 
tirely to this traffic. Who can reduce to dollars and 
cents the broken hearts, the wasted lives and human 
want and misery caused by this trade ? We do not 
say that this great flood of liquor is all consumed by 
the poor who go without the necessities of life in 
consequence. We do say that if every one who goes 
without needed food and clothing because of money 
spent for liquor, could buy the things they really need 
with that money, the farmer’s market would be vastly 
increased. 
One thing more : Do you realize that this annual 
consumption of liquor would require a tank of 
266,223,571,155 cubic inches capacity to hold it ? That 
would make a trough about 20 miles long, 500 feet 
wide and three feet deep, from which the people 
of this country are drinking. It looks as though the 
harder we work to make temperance people, the 
harder the drinkers work to keep up the average. 
Now, you great tariff orator—with these figures 
staring you in the face ; with a poor market for your 
produce ; with a rum shop doing the best trade of any 
business house in your town ; with your poorhouses 
and jails crying out for higher taxes to hold the 
products of this trade—don’t you think it’s about time 
you quit fighting over that ham, and kicked off those 
bulldogs behind you ? The majority of the farmers 
of this country are true temperance men—yet they 
stand still and let these bulldogs steal their home and 
market. Rouse, ye farmers, before it is too late ! Let 
the tariff alone for awhile, and turn all your guns on 
the liquor and financial questions ! 
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