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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Haunting our Homes

Haunting our Homes,

and terrifying our small economies, and consider what its forebodings are, under another aspect.

The indebtedness of the State of Missouri as taken from the last Treasurer's Report was: January 1, 1877, $17,248,000, and stands now, if the maturing bonds of 1877 and 1878 have been met, at something over$15,000,000. We perceive then, that the amount consumed in dram drinking in this Commonwealth during each year, is about twice the whole debt of the State. Again, the expenditure of the State establishment, Legislative, Judicial and Executive, sinking fund, interest on bonds, and all eleemosynary institutions was, in 1876 $2,843,950. Hence, it will appear that the amount of wasted wealth dedicated to dissipation each year, is more than ten times the cost of administering the laws, keeping the peace, caring for the unfortunate, and punishing the wrongdoers. And this