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 destruction of 380,000 years of human life and labour. Now say, that each individual, on an average, might earn a hundred dollars annually, besides his own support—and this he might do, it he were a temperate and industrious man— and you have the sum of thirty millions of dollars lost to the nation on this score.

Again, there is a vast sacrifice of time by the living drunkard. He must have time to take his glass—time to post oft to the dram shop— time to talk, and laugh, and swear, with his tippling companions—time for his periodical carousals—time to stagger through the streets —and time to doze away a thorough drunken frolic.—Suppose that one half of the ardent spirits consumed in the United States is used by men of intemperate habits, and that each pint, on an average, causes the loss of four hours’ time, and that each hour is worth sixpence :— and who cannot earn sixpence in an hour ? Here, then, we have 60 millions of dollars annually sacrificed, in this country, in the living drunkard’s time.

Now, put these items together, and behold the appalling amount. Cost of spirits annually consumed in the United States, thirty millions of dollars—for the support of paupers, 7,500,000 dollars. And in this computation, I have said nothing of sheriffs’ fees and cost of court— nothing of the time taken by wives to wait on drunken husbands—and nothing of surgeons’ and physicians’ bills. If these were added, the