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 MONEY, HOW WE SPEND OUR

The diagram below is designed to show how much the people of the United States spend every year for the drink traffic as contrasted with church work, education and the leading standard articles of food, clothing and shelter.

Foreign Missions           $10,000,000 = Brick                      100,000,000 == Churches                   175,000,000 === Potatoes                   210,000,000 ==== Silk Goods                 240,000,000 ==== Furniture                  245,000,000

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Sugar and Molasses         310,000,000

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Public Education           325,000,000

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Boots and Shoes            450,000,000

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Flour                      455,000,000

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Woolen and Worsted Goods   475,000,000

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Cotton Goods               675,000,000

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==== Lumber                     700,000,000

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===== Printing and Publishing    750,000,000

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======= Tobacco                    825,000,000

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=========== Iron and Steel           1,035,000,000

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============== Meat                     1,550,000,000

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====================== Intoxicating Liquors     1,675,000,000

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The cost of liquors and tobacco is based upon the Internal Revenue reports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. The other expenses are estimated for the year 1909 from the reports of the Secretary of Agriculture, the census of manufacturers for 1905, the report of the Commissioner of Education and other Government and census figures.—"American Prohibition Year-book."

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MONEY NO TEMPTATION

A certain Parson Scott was sent to Goldsmith to induce him to write in favor of the administration. "I found him," says Scott, "in a miserable set of chambers in the temple. I told him of my authority; I told him that I was empowered to pay most liberally for his exertions, and, would you believe it, he was so absurd as to say, 'I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party; the assistance you offer is therefore unnecessary to me.' And so," said the reverend plenipotentiary, with unstinted contempt, "I left him in his garret." What Goldsmith's exact earnings were at this time, it would be interesting to know: what sum it was that he found sufficient for his wants; but we know that this offer came at the close of twelve years' desperate struggle for bread, during which his first work had brought him little profit, and "The Vicar of Wakefield" had been sold for £60 to pay his landlady.—, "The Makers of English Prose."

(2089)

MONEY POWER IN CANADA

I wrote to a friend of mine in Toronto for some figures. I shall leave out the hundred thousands.

In 1881 the population of Canada was between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000; in 1901 it was 5,372,000; in 1908 it was 6,940,000; and in 1909, between 7,000,000 and 7,500,000. Now, then, what are their bank deposits? In 1880, thirty years ago, they were $96,000,000; in 1884, $131,000,000; in 1890, 176,000,000; in 1900, $358,000,000; in 1908, $593,000,000; in 1909, $917,000,000; showing an increase of almost 63 per cent. in one year.

What was the value of the farm products of the Dominion last year? $532,000,000, an increase of one hundred million in one year. They have the largest continuous wheat-field in the world. One field nine hundred miles by three hundred miles. I am talking about money, and this is Canadian money, with a population of between seven and seven and a half millions; and they have deposits of $917,000,000 in the bank.

We all know the phenomenal growth that Canada has had and is destined to have. When I asked, "What are the resources of Canada?" my friend replied, "I don't know, Marling, but they are beyond the dreams of avarice." Then I got this telegram from him to back it up:

"According to the census of 1901, the capital invested in Canada was $2,356,000,000 and the value of the products $992,200,000."—, "Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions," 1910.

(2090)