One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

really take away the appetite for liquor, there is an immense field for its exercise and room for the making of many fortunes in the cure of America’s drunkards. In the United States alone an exceedingly moderate estimate makes the number of this unfortunate class 1,600,000. At the very modest calculation that only one-tenth of these can be induced to try the cure, and if each case nets the proprietor of the institution only $25--and the estimate should probably be doubled and even trebled--there are $15,000,000 in it for the public benefactors who can thus curb the evil of dram-drinking.