Britain’s Drink Bill by Christian Standard

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

Britain’s Drink Bill

By Christian Standard

THE drink bill of Great Britain last year amounted to $700,000,000. This is enough money to support a fifth part of the population in comfort. To say nothing of the domestic misery, of the crime and cruelty, which it causes, every statesman, every politician, every editor knows that the spending of this immense sum in this way is a huge and hideous economic crime. Yet in England, as with us, statesmen and politicians and editors are afraid to attack it. They cower and tremble before this monster evil, and dare not assail the interests of men who control so much wealth. Their attitude towards it is that which they have occupied towards other mighty abuses in the days of their power.—Christian Standard.