The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-07-18
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INCREASED USE OF LIQUORS
More Beer Is Consumed in United
States Than Any Other Country
Second In Use of Spirits.

oSdteS IMAM ANY Otner country
Second In Use of Spirits.
The Literary Digest, in its issue of
December 8, says in part:
1T must be rather disappointing to
these who have felt great confidence
in the efficacy of the a%nti-saloon wave
which swept over the country a few
years ago. remarks a New York edi-
tor, to learn from official sources that
h last fiscal year was a record-break-
er in the use of alcoholic liquors. Dis
quteting, indeed, muses. an editorial
writer in the calmer air of Boston, to
those who have hoped that with the
progress of thought, liquor-drinkins
would show a marked, emphatic de.
crease Yet, he continues, this very
state of affairs Should incite society
ito renewed efforts to stimulate the
advance of temperance The 4 per
cent. increase in the production of dis
titled spirits over the previous ban
ner year, 1907, notes the New York
Evening Post, is a 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 a Washington dispatch to the
New York Tribune:
The last year witnessed the largest
production of distilled spirits in the
history of the country, 175, 4O2, 1895 gal
Ions having been produced, represent
ing an increase of 6,S28,4S2 gallons
over the largest previous production,
which was in 1907, and an increase of
1~9,164,S69 gallons over 1910. The pro-
cuction, of beer, ale, etc., amounted to
63,2l6.S51 barrels, nearly 1000, 900 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
249,279.340 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
1929 gallons" This paper also quotes
a 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
GUM, the United Kingdom. Germany,
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 10000 900 in Germany, and 1897, OOO,-
600 in the United Kingdom, that of
Austria being 430, 600. 900, Belgium 412,-
100000. France G.o00, coo. and Rus
STA 23l 900. 900 gallons.
OF spirits the quantity consumed in
the United States was 1873, 500. 900
proof gallons. against 232,75O, 900 in
Russia. the per capita in each case be-
ing 1.45 gallons, against a 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 31.44 gallons
in the United Kingdom, and 26.47 gal
Ions in Germany. In the consumption
OF wines France leads the world, 49,
4lO,O00.00o gallons. or 1886 gallons per
capita. in 1910, Italy I'm that year con-
sumed 31.17 gallons per capita; Por.
tugal, 27.39 gallons; Switzerland, 14.55
gallons; and the United States, in
1910, only 0.G6 gallon per capita.
Returning to the report of Mr.. Ca
bell, we find him citing these facts re-
garding m~oonshin:ng:
"A large number of the field force
has been used during the year In de-
tecting illicit distiliing, 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 2,488 d~istilleries, 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 operated last
year only 923 registered distilleries in
the entire United States"
The commissioner 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
detective"
Drunkard's Bequest.