The Republican journal., 1896-04-23
National Drink Bills.
,eat Britain Pays The Biggest One.

t7,, people of the United Kingdom of
...- Britain and Ireland continue to
.,. the reputation of being very ro-
lliukers. They number at the
time 80 100, 600, and the total
nj their wine, beer and alcoholic
divided by this sum, shows an
.,.r expenditure of SIS. Is per an
i every man, woman and child
... realm. Contrary to the general
.-.pn, the English drink more than
,trh. and the Irish less than
- The ratio of the English expen-
ur drink is $40. 40, the Scotch
,ud the Irish S13. Il per head
.rum These at least were the
.- vi 1888. which seems to be con-
banner year in drink annals
Instance which inquirers of the
r.ute persuasion attribute to the
.Hce of the parliamentary cleo
The entire drink bill of the
- .a for last year reached the i'm
. total of SIP, 07O, 600. OF this
-.lrt -203, 500, 600 went for spirituous
mostly whiskey and gin; S65, 0OO,-
...a vines; S435, 900, 900 for beer, ale
3D.. porter, and 81, 800, 00G for cider and
...I averages. Liberal as this expendi-
may seem, the general average of
consumption in England tends to
..rsse- In the ten years. 1851 20, the
- option of beverages of the spirit
ass was 0.941 gallon per head of
...1lation per annum; in the follow
Years it rose to 1.190 gallons, fall
during the ten years ending
-.0 10 0.9sS gallon. SO with wines,
nption for the first period was
the second 0.542, and for the
... 5~N gallon per head per annum
liquors the average annual CON
Tor the first period was -. 30.
'epnd 81. 30 and for the third ~
per head. The most potent in
diminishing the consumption
Y d. England are scarcity of work
x wages.
are NO similarly copious statistics
here to furnish a basis for COM
'ut such as there are suggest a
If even larger dimensions than
England, as might be expected
population OF kindred tastes 20
. more numerous than that of the
>Iu4d0m. Our national consump-
-Uijtuous liquors has diminished
gallons per head three years
II Gallons last year. but is still
emf. above that of England. Our
assumption has dropped in the
from is gallons to Is gallons
while the consumption of malt
mains at nearly its recent aver
tol lS95 80 gallons per head.
emit below the last English av-
hc latter would indicate an an
.u,nriot1 of I 1Hg ONO 600 Ual Hans
last annual returns here show
ljnn of |, 033. 600, 600 gallons of
md about 3,000 000 gallons of
. malt liquors. Wine plays a !
fvely small part in the drink bill
c3untIy. and here it would seem
ther diminishing than a grow
an public taste. In England
- heen since 1861 very consider
ease in the per capita CON
u of wine. and the gain has
.or jogether i'll favor of the lighter
a that year the English drank
.'U gallons Of port and sherry,
900, 900 gallons of light Wines
here We're 1900, 900 gallons of
vines consumed, against 6, 300 900
IF more highly alcoholized varie-
The consumption of domestic wines
Mted States reached over 26, OOO,-
MS in 1898, while that of import
NHs was $500, 900 gallons There
..s 3ever, been falling off equal to
per cent. in the last two years,
,-,,ug, like other statistics of similar
aor- that here, as in England, alcoholic
-enre is very largely governed by
l.Ic laws. Boston Herald