Increasing Drunkenness

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 26, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 21.

Increasing Drunkenness.

The population of the United States in 1850 was 23,191,876. There was a steady increase to 1895, when it is estimated at 69,000,000, the per cent. of increase being about 200. The consumption of liquor in 1850 was 94,712,353 gallons; in 1895, 1,140,764,716 gallons. The per cent. of increase is 1,100. In 1850 the consumption per head was 4.08 gallons; in 1885 it was 16.34 gallons. The curse is a terrible one, and increasing. In its train are theft, robbery, cruelty, licentiousness, brutality, murder.