Britain’s Excessive Liquor Consumption
English temperance advocates are in earnest in their efforts to bring before their people the frightful progress of the liquor business in Great Britain. From official statistics procured from Washington they have ascertained that our population of 45,000,000 consumes annually £93,000,000 worth of alcoholic liquor, which at a pro rata consumption there with their population of 33,000,000 would make their annual consumption amount to £68,000,000. The startling fact, however, is that their consumption actually amounts to £142,000,000, or more than double that of the same population in the United States. This is an important element to be considered in tracing out and removing the causes of the present fearful distress, and the possible loss of the manufacturing and commercial supremacy of the kingdom.—Christian Weekly.