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The editor would most respectfully beg leave
to present to his patrons and the friends of tempe
rance generally, Professor Gridley's Four Reasons
against the use Of Alcoholic Liquors. We intend
publishing them one at time, in four different
numbers.


The first reason we would urge why the use
of alcoholic liquors should be altogether dispensed
with, is their immense cost to the consumers. 1t
is estimated from data as unerring custom-house
books, and the declarations of the manufacturers
of domestic distilled spirts that previous to 1896
60, 100000 of gallons of ardent spirits
ally consumed in these United States; the aver
age cost of which is moderately stated at fifty cts
per gallon, and in the aggregate, thirty millions
of dollars. Thirty millions of dollars annually !
sum which if spread out in one dollar bank notes,
end to end, would reach across the Atlantic; or
if in silver dollars piled one upon another, would
form column nearly thirty miles high, and which
would occupy man twelve hours in each day
for almost two years to enumerate, allowing him
to count one every second. Or to suppose use
ful application of this fund, it would support an
nualy from two to three hundred thousand young
in preparing for the gospel ministry. In three
years it is sum more than equal to the supply of
bible to every family on the habitable globe one
half the amount would defray all the ordinary ex-
penses incident to the carrying on of our nations
governmental operations every year. Thus /