The committee, after due examination, came to the conclusion that upwards of sixty cents on the dollar was for the above purpose.

This amount was required, _according to law_, to be paid by every tax-payer as a _penalty, or rather as a rum bill_, for allowing the liquor traffic to be carried on in the above county.

What is said of Ulster County, may, more or less, if a like examination were entered into, be said of every other county, not only in the State of New York, but in every county in the United States." From the same tract we take this statement: "In a document published by the Legislature of the State of New York, for 1863, being the report of the Secretary of the State to the Legislature, we have the following statements: 'The whole number of paupers relieved during the same period, was 261,252.

During the year 1862, 257,354.' These numbers would be in the ratio of one pauper annually to every fifteen inhabitants throughout the State.

In an examination made into the history of those paupers by a competent committee, _seven-eighths of them were reduced_ to this low and degraded condition, directly or indirectly, through intemperance." CURSING THE POOR.
Looking at our laboring classes, with the fact before us, that the cost of the liquor sold annually by retail dealers is equal to nearly $25 for every man, woman and child in our whole population, and we can readily see why so much destitution is to be found among them.