Increase of Beer-Drinking

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882

Increase of Beer-Drinking.

"The consumption of malt liquor in this country has increased over 100 per cent. in ten years. 'During 1880,' says the Retailer, the organ of the brewers, 'taxes were paid on 13,374,000 barrels, or 414,000,000 gallons.' This is equivalent to about 150 mugs for every man, woman, and child in the country. Leaving out the females and children, this vast quantity represents 600 glasses a year for each male over twenty-one years old in the United States. At five cents a glass this beer manufacture of 1880 brought $375,000,000, or about $7.50 per capita for every man, woman, and child. This is a quarter more than the total expense of running the United States Government."