p. 199 | Extent of the Liquor Trade

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

Extent of the Liquor Trade.

In England, there are consumed annually, on an average, 728,200,000 gallons of beer, and probably 60,000,000 gallons of spirits; in Germany, 146,000,000 gallons of beer and 121,500,000 gallons of wine; in France, 51,800,000 gallons of beer and 600,000,000 of wine, and probably 40,000,000 of spirits. In the United States the consumption of beer reaches 297,000,000 gallons, about 22,000,000 of wine, and 73,000,000 gallons of spirits. The value of liquor consumed annually in these four countries is not less than $2,000,000,000, and, with the money invested in its production and manufacture, the money spent in it certainly exceeds $4,000,000,000.—Ex.