Excerpt from Example and Effort: An Address, Delivered Before the Congressional Temperance Society, at Washington, D. C Have you heard of those terrible statistics the census reveals, that there are four hundred thousand more people today engaged in the manufacturing and sale of liquors than in preaching God's Word and in teaching the rising generation in 'our schools or colleges? Have you thought of that saddening and gloomy fact that every year sixty thousand of our people march voluntarily, self destroyed, down through a drunkard's life to the drunkard's death and grave? Where can we turn to see anything that relieves this sad and dark picture? Go to the poor-houses of New York. Seventy-two thousand wrecks of humanity are supported by the taxation of the people in the poor-houses of New York. And of those seventy two thousand it has been ascertained that more than one-half. Came to their present ruin directly through liquor. But turn from New York to the broad and continental domain of our Republic. If there are seventy-two thousand in New York, there are seven hundred thousand in the poor houses of the States and Territories of the nation. And if half of these in New York have been dragged down from happiness and a competence to pauperism and wretchedness by liquor, there are nearly three hundred thousand families in this country shipwrecked for ever by slavery to this monster evil. When the habit was first form ed, they could have snapped it with infant hands, but now it stiffens on older limbs like gyves of iron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.