Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — The Overshadowing Curse. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Overshadowing Curse.

Th« following diagram is a comparison of the annual expenditure In the United. States for intoxicating liquors and tobacco with various other of the largest items of expenditure. It first ap. neared in tne “Christian Union of March 27, 1884, and was sopied and indorsed bv the “In- : v \fcrior,” of Chicago. The statistics concerning tobacco have been gathered by C. C. Lewis, of Battle Creek, Mich,, and added to the diagram as given by the ‘•Christian Union.” The whole is based on the census of 1880 and the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for 1881 !Scalo: Each throe-fourths of an ; i men reproseutoiw* 3*100,000,000- The “Interior” says: “The liquor bil! represents the cash paid for it by consumers, and is. in our opinion, not an exaggeration of the facts. v\ e consider it just about the actual amount. Comments upon a showing so appalling would only weaken the power of truili.”