The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-09-23

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Internal Revenue Reports
The Nations Drink Bill Double
the Amount Spent for Bread
and Meat.
The drink traffic-the drink evils
strsdily on the increase.
The following statistics-m mostly de-
|duced from the internal revenue reports
-are terribly eloquent on this matter
Take. tor instance. the total production
of Distilled spirits in the Uuited State.
in round numbers:
1873 570OO.0OO 1890 97.U0O.UOC
1885 76.50o0o0 1891 ll7.o0OUvt
I The total consumption Tor the follow.
ing years was:
l Distilled Malt
Liquors. Wines. liquors
Gallons. Gallons. Gallons.
1856 72Ooo0o 220oo o0o G43.c0o.oOO
lsss 100000 100000 767 800 OOO
1889 eO.Uuuc,O 34CoOUUO 760OUO.cOU
lssU $4,000 27.Uu0,OO0 556,OJO,UOO
While in 1921 the increase ia the con-
sumption OF malt liquors alone arose, BY
the enormous increase Of lO1 100000
gallons. to 957.0OOO00 gallons -an in.
crease in one year OF ll.9 per cent.
The totsI per capita consumption OF
All alcoholic liquors was, in
Gallons. Gallons.
Il67O 797 1889 lass
1850 lO.l6 1890 Is 40
As regards the total number OF people
- "A a. -
they were, in 1883. 207 ,765; 1890. $685.
I535: 1891, 33O. 400 (for twelve months,
according to The National Temperance
Advocate. January, 1897; 1891, 254 469
(for fourteen months ending June 3U)
A. to the revenue, We find the total 10
be, in round numbers:
1855 So 0vO.0o0 1889 $4,000 o0o
ISIS Gl.OOO.O,O 1890 lO7 ODOOuO
Issl s6.OODUvO 1891 ll2,OOO,OOO
lsss e3,0UO.OvO
Increase nearly fivefold since 1865.
while the population only about doubled /.
Some time ago the Hon. Il. A. Morse.
said in an address before the house OF
representatives. on considering the aIco-
hol inquiry bill: The last census (leSO)|
shows that this country expends annual
W s5oO.0oO. QUO tor bread and $4,000, \
O)0 for meat Yet, by the report Of the
United States commissioner Of internal
revenue. the direct cost TO the consumers
OF the liquor consumed IN this country
il Sl.3uUOooUOU-S6UOO 600 OO0 more
than the entire bread and meat bill or
the nation; and most undoubtedly the
indirect cost OF the liqnor traffic 70 the
country, in loss Of labor aud time. in
criminal prosecutions resulting from
drink. j. ss much more. making . total
~ $1sOUOOO.OuO wasted upon drink. X
This waste, plus the incalculable waste
Of human happiness and human in
tegrity.
A. regards 1891. the best estimates
place the total drink bill NJ 81 .20O OK. .OOU
direct cost. and $4,000 900 more for
indirect cost. Hence, by direct cost, for
every 81 the revenue receives the nation
pays SO ~; or, II indirect cost be taken
also. els 70.
Recently The Rural New Yorker made
some comparative returns which show
the total value Of all cereals produced in
the states (ls9O) to be 1890. .255, ,398 !;
total exports tor 1890. 4Ss5. .293 S28 !;
total, q l65, $40 .2aG only equal in|
amount TO the drink bill for 1891.
Judge White. st Pitssburg. May 2S,l
1889. said; After fifteen years on the
bench, believe four-fifths OF AL crimes
are the result, directly or in
Of the use Of intox xicating H.
quors- Much Of IL il due TO beer. Ill
follows that three-fourths Of the expense
70 the state for the prosecution OF crim-
inais j. attributed to the same canse.v-l
Axei Gustafson In Christian Union.