of all our insane.
"We assert, and believe it can be proved, that reclaiming the drunkard is a greater gain to the State, practical and immediate, than any other charity.
"It is a low estimate to say it costs every county in the State three hundred dollars yearly to support a drunkard; that is, this amount, and more, is diverted from healthy channels of commerce, and is, practically, lost to the State.

At an inebriate asylum, but little over that amount would, in a large majority of cases, restore them as active producers again.
"Figures cannot represent the actual loss to society, nor can we compute the gain from a single case cured and returned to normal life and usefulness.

Inebriety is sapping the foundation of our Government, both State and National, and unless we can provide means adequate to check it, we shall leave a legacy of physical, moral and political disease to our descendants, that will ultimately wreck this country.

Inebriate asylums will do much to check and relieve this evil." We conclude this chapter, which is but an imperfect presentation of the work of our inebriate asylums, by a quotation from the _Quarterly Journal of Inebriety_, for September, 1877.

This periodical is published under the auspices of "The American Association for the Cure of Inebriates." The editor, Dr.Crothers, says: "We publish in this number, reports of a large number of asylums from all parts of the country, indicating great prosperity and success, notwithstanding the depression of the times.