. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. - a. THE SALOON AN ECONOMIC VAMPIRE. 47 account for this decrease, and also explain the fact that while a millionof capital invested in general industrial enterprises employed 540 persons,the same amount of capital in the liquor industry employed less than an equal basis the liquor industry should have employed at least 582persons per million of capital. In 1900, the liquor industry paid $57,656 in wages for every millionof capital invested. At the same time, the total capital inv
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. - a. THE SALOON AN ECONOMIC VAMPIRE. 47 account for this decrease, and also explain the fact that while a millionof capital invested in general industrial enterprises employed 540 persons,the same amount of capital in the liquor industry employed less than an equal basis the liquor industry should have employed at least 582persons per million of capital. In 1900, the liquor industry paid $57,656 in wages for every millionof capital invested. At the same time, the total capital invested in allmanufactures paid $234,467 per million. Perhaps the brewers and dis-tillers can explain this great disparity in wage-paying capacity of theliquor industry. In 1900, a million of capital invested in the liquor industry pur-chased $139,959 worth of raw material. At the same time, a million ofcapital in all industries averaged the purchase of $278,957 of raw ma-terial. Or, putting the figures in another form, while the manufacturingestablishments of the United States purchased $7,377,907,079 worth
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