Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-03-01
INCREASED USE or LIQUORS
More Beer Is Consumed in United
States Than Any Other Country
Second in Use of Spirits.


The Literary Digest, in its issue OF
/ December 8, says in part:
1T must be rather disappointing TO
those who have felt great confidence
In the efficacy of the anti-saloon wave
which swept over the country few
! years ago. remarks New York edi-
tor. to learn from official sources that
the last fiscal year was a record-break-
| er in the use of alcoholic liquors. Dis
] quieting, indeed, muses. an editorial
| writer in the calmer air of Boston, to
those who have hoped that with the
| progress of thought, liquOr-drinking
would show marked, emphatic de-
crease. Yet. he continues, this very
state of affairs should incite society
| to renewed efforts to stimulate the
advance of temperance The 4 per
| cent. increase III the production of dis
| titled spirits over the previous BAN
ner year. 1907, notes the New York
Evening Post, is smaller percentage
of increase than that which has taken
place in the population of the coun-
try"
The following figures from the re-
port of Royal E. Cabell, United States
Minister of Internal Revenue, are pre-
sented in Washington dispatch to the
New York Tribune:
The last year witnessed the largest
production of distilled spirits in the
history of the country, 175,402,3 1896 gal
Ions having been produced, represent
ing an increase of 6.S2S4S2 gallons
over the largest previous production.
which was in 1907, and an increase of
1854 1863 gallons over 1910 The pro-
duction. of beer, ale, etc, amounted to
! 63,216,S51 barrels, nearly 100000 bar
rels more than in the previous record
year, 1910. The amount of liquor held
in bonded warehouses for ripening
now reaches the enormous total of
249, 279. $40 gallons"
The combined increase" notes an
other writer, represents an increase
of 1.3 gallons per capita so that the
total per capita consumption is now
22.29 gallons This paper also quotes
Washington dispatch, which sets
forth the fact that more beer is con-
sumed in the United States than in
any other country, and more distilled
spirits than in any other country ex-
cept Russia We read further:
THE quantity per capita consumed
in the United States is not however,
in the case of beer, as great as in Bel
Uiurn tho TIpi+a1 Li,,od0x, ro-,,, -,
or Denmark; while our per capita con-
sumption of distilled spirits is less
than that of Denmark, Hungary, Aus
tria, France, the Netherlands, or Swe-
den. OF wines, the quantity consumed
in the United States is below that of
Portugal, Spain. Germany, Italy or
France; and the per capita consump-
ton is less than that OF France, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland. Austria,
or Hungary.
THE quantity of malt liquors con-
sumed in the United States in 1910
was 1851 100000 gallons, against l.
704.000,000 in Germany and 1897 ,000,-
600 in the United Kingdom. that of
Austria being 43O,OO0,000 Belgium 4l2,-
100000. France 376,000,600, and Rus
STA 231 100000 gallons.
''Of spirits the quantity consumed in
the United States was 133, 500. 900
proof gallons. against 23o, 75O, 900 in
Russia. the per capita in each case be-
ing Las gallons, against little less
than one gallon in the United King
dom
The quantity of beer per capita con-
sumed in the United States was. in
1910 20 gallons, against 3144 gallons
In the United Kingdom, and 2647 gal
Ions in Germany. In the consumption
of wines France leads the world. 49,
100000 900 gallons, or 1886 gallons per
capita, in 1910. Italy in that year con-
sumed 31.17 gallons per capita; Por-
tugal, 27.39 gallons: Switzerland. 1855
gallons: and the United States. in
1910 only 0.66 gallon per capita.
Returning to the report of Mr.. Ca
bell, we find him citing these facts re-
garding moonshining.
"A large number of the field force
has been used during the year in de-
tecting Illicit distilling, which practice
has increased steadily, especially in
those states in which prohibitory laws
have been enacted. During the last
fiscal year there were seized and de-
stroyed 2,48S distilleries, as compared
with 1911 for the fiscal year 1910.
The prevalence of this practice will
be better understood when it is re-
called that there were onprafed last
year only 923 registered distilleries In
the entire United States
The commissioners also finds that
opium smoking is on the increase. that
opium ''joints" exists in nearly all of
our cities and that the present statutes
forbidding its use and manufacture are
defective"
Drunkard's Request.