The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-01-22
FACTS ABOUT WHISKEY.
(Chicalo rribune.)

Last year you drank l9.48 gallons Of
ALCOHOLIC stimulants-or,. if you didn't
4 you failed to drink your share of the
total amount consumed by the people
Of the United States.
/ In 1880 the consumption OF alcoholic
/ liquors per capita in the United States
was 1909 gallons. In little over thirty
years it nearly doubled, now amounting
TO 10. 48 gallons per capita
/ This is one Of the more or less start
ling facts set forth ia the American pro-
hibition year book for 1904. just puD-
lished. Other figures and statements,
all of them suggestive and some of
them appalling, are quoted from the
same source.
In Illinois, where local option pre-
walls and high licence is the iuie, the
average savings bank deposit per cap
tia is S20.75. In Maine, under prohibit
ton, the average por capita of savings
deposits IS $103 76. From these figures
the Prohibitonists argue that even from
a purely monetary stand point total
abstinence pays.
piled to an English life insurance com
pany for policy, and was told that, as
total abstainer, he would have TO pay
an extra premium, the company holding
that the moderate use of liquor tended
to prolong life. Warner did not believe
this theory, and started an insurance
company Of his own. Warmers COM
pany divided the risks it took into two
classes, one made up of total abstainers
and the other OF men who drank In |
moderation 10 the tbirty-three years |
from 1866 to 1898 the deaths in the list |
Of moderate drinkers were 81 per cent of
those expected; in the list Of total alb
stsiners the deaths we're only 20 per
cent. Of those expected. In other
words, the death rate among moderate
thinkers was nearly 40 per cent. more
han among total abstainers.
During the last thirty years there
lied in Europe alone OF alcoholism q
otal Of 1850, 900 people. That is more
PEOPLE than we're killed 10 all the wars
i the nineteenth century. The au-
hority for these statements is Matti
felenius, member of the faculty OF
be University Of Denmark, who goes
n to show that in Denmark one out
every seven. men who die between
be ages of IS and 55 is victim of
lcoholism.
The highest amount charged yearly
,r liquor license Is $500, in Louisi-
ma. The lowest is IS, charged in the
ame state.
There are 254, 467 liquor dealers in the
United States.
There are nearly 1000 women saloon
eepers 10 the United States. New
ork leads with 348, Ohio has 1877, IL
nois has 1876 and Pennsylvania 1874.
So
The people OF the United States spend :
,nuaily for literature. including news
spers, periodicals and books total
&l74, 965. 1926. The same people spend
annually for malt and alcoholic liquors
e enormous sum OF Sl,O74, 1916, 928. I
'hiskey and beer c,at annually five a
mes as much as books, newspapers Q
I'd magazines, And yet we are an in
liigent people.
II q man buys 500 worth OF boots :
ID shoes he pays $2O.7l Of that amount :
r labor; 10 he buvs 500 worth OF fur
lure he pays 1923 n for labor; IL he
,ys SlOO worth OF wooden goods he
lys $12. SO for labor; u he buys 500 a
birth Of liquor be pays only 1923 for Il
Dor. Therefore, concludes the Year
,ok, liquor Is labor's worst enemy.
The annual liquor bill OF Great Brit @
10 In s2l "a per capita. M
The per capita consumption Of beer
Great Britain IL per cent. greater .,
An In 3ormxnv. commOnlv an nnooad ~