Those who are licensed venders take from the government fifty dollars for every one put into the treasury.

The money paid for licenses is a very meager compensation for the beggary, crime, and bloodshed which rum produces.

All who have any knowledge of the statistics of the State, or of our prison and police records know, that intemperance has done more to fill the prisons, work-houses, alms-houses, and asylums of the State than all other influences combined; and yet men uphold the traffic.

Their favors are for those who love its use and sale, and their anathemas for him, who is striving to save a nation of drunkards from swift destruction; yea, their own sires, sons, and brothers from the grave of the inebriate.
When in Rochester a short time since, soliciting subscribers for this work, I stepped into a distillery and asked a man to subscribe for it.

He hesitated in his decision until he took a tumbler and filling it with brandy, invited me to drink.