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The Increase of Intemperance

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 39.

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The Increase of Intemperance

ACCORDING to statistics presented at the recent Anti-alcohol Congress at Paris, it was shown that there had been an increase of five thousand dram shops in Paris alone since 1880. The consumption of liquor has trebled in the last thirty years; and between the years of 1875 and 1885 it doubled. The amount consumed averages per adult man twelve quarts. And this is about the general testimony. The world is a long way off from conversion.