Ireland’s Drink Consumption and Poverty by Brooklyn Vidette

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1881

Ireland’s Drink Consumption and Poverty

By Brooklyn Vidette

THE amount of beer and whisky consumed in Ireland during the last famine year exceeded forty-six millions of dollars in value, or nearly ten dollars a head for every man, woman, and child in the island. This may have nothing to do with the poverty and distress that followed the failure of the potato crop, but there are those who will entertain the opinion that a people who can spend forty-six millions a year for potations, should not put themselves in the attitude of the wards of the world.