Excerpt from The Combination Against Intemperance Explained and Justified: An Address Delivered Before the Cambridge Temperance Society, March 27, 1832 Recollect that there is scarcely a village, in which the cost of the ardent spirits annually used, has not been more than enough to pay all the taxes, which go to support the ministry and schools and highways. Recollect that this state of things has been perpetuated by the existence of a class of men, who thrive and grow rich on this general ruin; a class so numerous as to furnish a grog-shop for every twenty-one inhabitants, and distille ries, which, in 1815, amounted to forty thousand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.