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
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Brick 100,000,000
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Churches 175,000,000
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Potatoes 210,000,000
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Silk Goods 240,000,000
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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."
(2087)
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.—W. J. Dawson,
"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."—Alfred E. Marling, "Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions," 1910.
(2090)
