The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1898-05-18
WORLDS DRINK STATISTlCS,

V9OFti-Li = DtlllNi\ = ~ 10 ! lCO,
Englshmen Are Greater Beer Drinkers
Than Germans.
The country owes thanks to Sir
Courtenay Boyle. Most blue books
are dry, and but few OF us care to
master their contents. Sir Courtenay
Boyle has succee icd, howe yer, III
producing one that might almost be
described as fascinating-the d4ink
statistics Of the civilized world, on
TO give it is otlicia and rather long
winded title, The Production and
Consumption Of Alcoholic Bever-
ages = (Wine, beer, spirits).
A study Of the paper leads to one
conc]usion-namcly, that not only
will people drink as long as they can
afford to pay for II, but that they
will drink. France produces ten
times as much wine as Germany; it
also exports ten times as much, and
yet more German wine is imported
into the United States than French
vino. The answer is obvious; there
are IN the States MANY successful
German settlers, and they, having
the money, will have hook of the
fatherland no matter what they pay
for it. Thus also III prosperous Bel
gium people put scarcely any limit
on themselves in the matter Of drink,
and whether it be beer or spirits
Belgium stands at tho head in the
matter OF consumption per head
while even as regards wine, although
it is not q wine producing country,
the inhabitants consume as much as
do the Germans, whose country is
WINE producing.
One point that is brought out very
clearly in these tubles is the fact
that the drink trade is almost every
where a home industry-tha is,
that by far the greater proportion Of
tho drink consumed is made in the
country consuming it. We in Eng
land import So much wine and bran
uy from the continent that we are
perhaps nrt altogether il q position
70 realize i.4 tact. and yet even in
Eu% land ~ f;.r the greater portion
OF tie t1t.A consumed Is home
nadc l"l& q proved 10y the relative
prolo1Jul u the customs receipts
from imported liQnor& The Gus
8 ~, u t@ayIY> a'F'9"24. - E,.aj5. coo
a44u lAH ,..l1~t ivCUl - - e.. ,luU,
GOO, or i'll the proportion OF II per
cent to S3 per cent III favor of the
E.omeI4;,, Perhaps very few re-; l.
re to how great tn extent france is
the great Wine producing aud also
the great inc consuming country
OF the world. The statcmcLt that
the quantity uf Nlne annually drunk
i'll the United Kingdom, Germany
and the United States, which, take7,
altogether, have q population Of
$50, 0CO, OOO souls, barely exceeds !,
tenth part Of what is con. ilmed in
France, with it's $4,000, COO ilIiiabit-
ants, enables Us to more fully rec
ognize the fact N! ~, l># over,
will IJ@sul t,l,iatu to f. tn.,. l.,,t on
sumption per head OF beer III | lis
country exceeds that Of Germany
for while the German ,lrinks 25 gal
Ions pen allnuln the Engishman
drinks 80 gallons. In both countries
the consumption Of beer is distinctly
on the increase.
The following is an interesting
fact taken at hazard: Seventy seven
gallons of beer are consumed in this
country for every gallon Of wine
that is drunk. Gould any clearer
proof be wanting that it is the mass
es who drink, not the classes
Scarcely the seventh part of a bot
tie Of champagne per head is drunk
PEI annuin by tho inhabitants 0!
this country, i'll the United States
scarcely the twentieth pal t.-pal
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