The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02
WORLDS DRINK STATISTICS


EnEiishnncn Are Greater Beer Drinkers
THAN Gcr,nnns.
The country owes thanks 10 Sir
Courtenay Boyle. Most blue books
are dry, and but few OF us care to
master their contents. Sir Courtenay
Boyle has succeeded, however. ln
producing onc that might almost 10
described as fascinating-tllo d.ink
statistics of the civilized world. or.
to give it its onicial ana rather long
windcd title, The Production and
Consumption Of Alcoholic Bcvcr.
ages" (wino, beer, spirits.
A study Of the paper leads to II
conclnsion-namely. that not only
will people drink us 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 ns much, and
yet more German wine is imported
into tho United States than French
vine. Tho answer is obvious; !hera
are ~ the States many successful
German settlers, and they, having
the money, will have hook of tho
lathcrland 10 matter what they pay
Tor IT. Thus also III prosperous Boil
GUM people put scarcely any limit
alternatives III the matter OF drink
ANA whether 1t he beer or spiri f,
l''l::iUm stands al the head in the
Mattor @! consumption per head,
whichever :: lV@alis wine. although
IL - not Il VINE producing; country,
the iMl:al'itnAt; cun>unlra 81 lmuch as
ito the Germans. whose country is
Wine producing.
On" point tllit is brought out v,ry
clcNrly III these tables j.; illc fact
that hndlink TRADE is alnnu-trrr!y-
where homo industry ,i,ai is.
that hy far Tho greater proportion oi
tho drink consumed is mn,in in III,
country consuming ii. We il l.nE
land import *u much WinraN bran.
dy from tho continent that we M,
perhaps not altogether III ~ position
to realize tho fact, and yet even il
England by far tho greater portion
of tho drink consumed iS home
made. This is proved by the rrlativ,
proportions of the customs receipt.
from imported liquors. The Gus
toms receipts amount to 80, 500, OOt
anu the excise receipts to 3?7, 600
900, or i'll the proportion Of IL pei
cent to SO per cent in favor of til,
homemade. Perhaps very few real
ize to how great an extent France j!
the great wine producing and ;,lst
tho great wine CONSUMING. country
of the world. Tho state nclt tina
tho quantity of vine unnu lily DRUM
i'll tho United Kingdom. Germany
and the Unitod States, wnicl, tnkc1
altogether, have rr .NulAtion O
$50, 600, 900 souls, barely exceeds ;
tenth part of what is CONSUMED il
France. with lis IS, 600, O0D inllabit
ants. enables MS to more fully rec
ogniZc tho fact. Many, moreover
will he surprised to find that the econ
sumption per head OF beer in thi,
country exceeds that of Germany
for while the German drinks % cal
, Ions per nun the EnSlishlnal
drinks 30 gallons. In both countric.
the consumption of beer is distinctly
on the increase.
Tho following is AZ. interesting
fact taken ut hazard: Soventy-sevc,
gallons Oh beer II consumed in thi.
country for every gallon of win,
that IL drunk. Could any clearel
proof be wanting that it il tho mass
es who drink, not The classes
Scarcely tho seventh part OF II bot
tic Of champagne per head is DRUM
per annum by tho inhabitants o
this country, in the United States
scarcely tho twentieth part.-Pal
Mall Gazette.