Beer, Poverty, and Crime by Catholic Review

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1892

Beer, Poverty, and Crime

By Catholic Review

LAST year the inhabitants of Germany drank 52,304,000 hectoliters of beer, an increase of over 7,000,000 over the quantity imbibed in 1890. If they would abstain from lager, the occupation of the Socialists would be gone, for so many of them would be so far on the road to a moderate prosperity that they would have no temptation to covet their neighbor’s goods. In poverty is anarchy bred, and alcohol is the mother of poverty and crime. —Catholic Review.