*• Looked at in a severe light it is true that the medical practitioner is supported by the disease of the commu- nity and not by its health, and therefore it is to his interest to prolong illness. None but the Chinese fully realize our position in this respect. When Kien Long, the emperor of that celestial country, learned from Sir G. Staunton our method of feeing the physician for attend- ance during illness, he inquired * is any man well in England that can afford to be ill ? I have four physicians to whom the care of my health is committed and a cer- tain weekly salary is allowed them, but the moment I am ill the salary stops till I am well again. I need not inform you that my illnesses are very short.' " Doctors' Incomes. In an article on this point in the Forum Dr. George F. Shrady states that " the average annual income of a physician in full practice in a large city may be stated as $2000, and in the smaller towns and in strictly rural districts $1,200. Two or three phy- sicians in New York make over $100,000 each year, ^v^ or six range from $50,000 to $60,000, 50 from $25,000 to $30,000, 150 from $10,000 to $12,000, about 300 from $5000 to $6000, 1500 from $2000 to $3000, and the remainder from $800 to $1000." The Chinese doctor gets no pay while his patient is sick and hence bends all his energies toward curing him as speedily as possible. Should this become the univer- sal custom, there would be fewer sick people. Hospitals and sanitariums would diminish, and medical colleges would find it necessary to change their curriculum. Tea and Coffee. In 1890 over 400,000,000 pounds of coffee were consumed in the United States, and over 80,000,000 pounds of tea, amounting to nearly two hun- dred millions of dollars and when to that we add the bills WHERE THE MONEY GOES. ^ 239 for chocolate and cocoa a few millions more maybe safely mentioned. From a physiological standpoint these drinks are entirely unnatural and unnecessary. Verily we are an extravagant nation of drinkers, and when we add to the expense of these articles the cost of cream and sugar to render them palatable, the bill represents millions more. In this connection we must bear in mind that *'the poor whom we always have with us*' through the influence of our example indulge in these articles to the extent of their means, a cup of tea and slice of white bread, being considered by many poor women the best food they can have, when in reality it is the very poorest. The Liquor Bill. From the internal revenue reports we find that our people were taxed last year for 87,000,000 gallons of whiskeys and other distilled spirits, 1,500,000 gallons of fruit brandy and more than 33,000,000 barrels of fermented liquors. The taxes amounting to $116, 974,- 040. The entire cost of these luxuries was over $200,000,000. No arguments are needed to prove that this outlay is unnecessary, and that the world would be better off if the liquor bill were utilized for a better purpose instead of assisting in the manufacture of criminals. Tobacco. Billions of cigars and cigarettes are con- sumed in a year; 11,000,000 pounds of snuff and 235,000,000 pounds of tobacco are also used in a year by our people and represent millions of dollars ; to this we may add millions more for opium, drugs and spices. From these statistics it is proven that the nation eats, drinks, smokes and spits away sufficient in one year, to more than defray the expense of running the national government, and the worst feature about it is, that the 240 THE FAT OF THE LAND. human race would be greatly benefitted in every way if none of these things were appropriated by them as food drink or stimulus.

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*• Looked at in a severe light it is true that the medical practitioner is supported by the disease of the community and not by its health, and therefore it is to his interest to prolong illness. None but the Chinese fully realize our position in this respect. When Kien Long, the emperor of that celestial country, learned from Sir G. Staunton our method of feeing the physician for attendance during illness, he inquired * is any man well in England that can afford to be ill ? I have four physicians to whom the care of my health is committed and a certain weekly salary is allowed them, but the moment I am ill the salary stops till I am well again. I need not inform you that my illnesses are very short.' " Doctors' Incomes. In an article on this point in the Forum Dr. George F. Shrady states that " the average annual income of a physician in full practice in a large city may be stated as $2000, and in the smaller towns and in strictly rural districts $1,200. Two or three physicians in New York make over $100,000 each year, Five or six range from $50,000 to $60,000, 50 from $25,000 to $30,000, 150 from $10,000 to $12,000, about 300 from $5000 to $6000, 1500 from $2000 to $3000, and the remainder from $800 to $1000." The Chinese doctor gets no pay while his patient is sick and hence bends all his energies toward curing him as speedily as possible. Should this become the universal custom, there would be fewer sick people. Hospitals and sanitariums would diminish, and medical colleges would find it necessary to change their curriculum. Tea and Coffee. In 1890 over 400,000,000 pounds of coffee were consumed in the United States, and over 80,000,000 pounds of tea, amounting to nearly two hundred millions of dollars and when to that we add the bills for chocolate and cocoa a few millions more maybe safely mentioned. From a physiological standpoint these drinks are entirely unnatural and unnecessary. Verily we are an extravagant nation of drinkers, andwhen we add to the expense of these articles the cost of cream and sugar to render them palatable, the bill represents millions more. In this connection we must bear in mind that "the poor whom we always have with us"' through the influence of our example indulge in these articles to the extent of their means, a cup of tea and slice of white bread, being considered by many poor women the best food they can have, when in reality it is the very poorest. The Liquor Bill. From the internal revenue reports we find that our people were taxed last year for 87,000,000 gallons of whiskeys and other distilled spirits, 1,500,000 gallons of fruit brandy and more than 33,000,000 barrels of fermented liquors. The taxes amounting to $116, 974,- 040. The entire cost of these luxuries was over $200,000,000. No arguments are needed to prove that this outlay is unnecessary, and that the world would be better off if the liquor bill were utilized for a better purpose instead of assisting in the manufacture of criminals. Tobacco. Billions of cigars and cigarettes are consumed in a year; 11,000,000 pounds of snuff and 235,000,000 pounds of tobacco are also used in a year by our people and represent millions of dollars ; to this we may add millions more for opium, drugs and spices. From these statistics it is proven that the nation eats, drinks, smokes and spits away sufficient in one year, to more than defray the expense of running the national government, and the worst feature about it is, that the human race would be greatly benefitted in every way if none of these things were appropriated by them as food drink or stimulus.

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