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Section
17
Health and
Temperance
Chapter 189.
The World's
Curse
1. WHAT admonition against intemperance did Christ give that is
especially applicable at the present time?
"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts
be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life,
and so that day come upon you unawares." Luke 21:34.
2. What did He say would be the condition of the world just before His
second coming?
" As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be. . . . They were eating and drinking. marrying and giving in
marriage." Matt. 24:37,38.
3. How has the consumption of liquor increased in gallons in the United
States since 1840:-
|
|
SPIRITS |
WINES |
LIQUORS |
TOTAL |
GAL PER
CAPITA |
| 1840 |
43,060,884 |
4,873,096 |
23,310,843 |
71,244,823 |
4.17 |
| 1850 |
51,833,473 |
6,316,393 |
36,563,009 |
94,712,875 |
4.08 |
| 1860 |
89,968,651 |
10,933,981 |
101,346,669 |
202,249,301 |
6.43 |
| 1870 |
79,895,708 |
12,225,067 |
204,756,156 |
296,876,931 |
7.70 |
| 1880 |
63,526,694 |
28,098,179 |
414,220,165 |
505,845,038 |
10.08 |
| 1890 |
87,829,623 |
28,945,993 |
855,929,559 |
972,705,175 |
15.53 |
| 1900 |
97,356,864 |
29,988,467 |
1,222,387,104 |
1,349,732,435 |
17.76 |
| 1910 |
133,538,864 |
60,548,078 |
1,851,340,256 |
2,045,427,018 |
21.86 |
| 1911 |
138,585,989 |
62,859,232 |
1,966,911,744 |
2,169,356,695 |
22.79 |
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The total consumption of alcoholic liquors in the United States for
forty-two years (1870-1911) was 43,611,000,564 gallons.
The drink bill of the United States for 1911 was estimated at $1,833,-
653,425, or nearly twice the national debt.
The number of liquor dealers in the United States in 1910 was 255,765,
or over a quarter of a million.
The capital invested in the manufacture of liquor in the United States
in 1850 was less than $10,000,000. In 1910, sixty years later, it had
increased to over $770,000,000, or more than 7,700 per cent.
The total internal revenue received by the United States for liquor for
forty-nine years, or from 1863 to 1911, was $5,245,916,047.01.
The use of whisky, beer, cigars, and cigarettes in the United States
increased enormously in 1912. During the three months of July, August,
and September of this year alone, 33,150,000 gallons of whisky were
used, an increase of 450,000 gallons over the corresponding period of
the previous year; 19,800,000 barrels of beer were drunk, an increase of
320,000 barrels over the same months of 1911; 1,950,000,000 cigars were
smoked, a record consumption; and more than 3,800,000,000 cigarettes
were consumed, an increase of 1,000,000,000 over the same period of the
previous year.
4. What can be said of intemperance in Great Britain?
Speaking of
intemperance in Great Britain. the English
Watchword says:-
"Thanks to our brewers and
publicans, and the cooperation of the magistrates who license them, an
the consent of the Christian church which permits the liquor traffic to
continue, we have:-
"1,000,000 paupers on the rates through drink,
100,000 criminals in
jail through drink,
50,000 lunatics in asylums through drink,
60,000 deaths annually through drink, and a standing army of-
60,000
confirmed drunkards."
5. To what extent is beer manufactured in the world today?
The enormous extent of the beer industry in the world at the present
time is indicated by the following table prepared in 1903 by Gambrinus,
of Vienna:-
| |
No. of Breweries |
| Germany |
18,230 |
| United Kingdom |
5,547 |
| America and Australia |
2,210 |
| Austria-Hungary |
1,436 |
| Belgium |
3,319 |
| France |
3,360 |
| Russia |
920 |
| Sweden |
250 |
| Denmark |
370 |
| Switzerland |
228 |
| Holland |
372 |
| Other Countries |
260 |
| TOTAL |
36,502 |
The amount of beer produced by these 36,502 breweries is estimated at
considerably over 150,000,000 barrels annually.
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Gallons or Liquor Consumed Annually by the World Today
| |
WINE |
BEER |
SPIRITS |
| Australia |
7,925,000 |
47,976,000 |
3,297,000 |
| Austria-Hungary |
192,800,000 |
545,674,043 |
120,000,000 |
| Belgium |
8,948,200 |
395,285,258 |
9,895,000 |
| Bulgaria |
29,100,000 |
946,000 |
770,000 |
| Denmark |
|
63,213,000 |
4,000,000 |
| Dominion of Canada |
1,386,235 |
39,896,636 |
6,054,790 |
| France |
1,710,900,000 |
289,103,000 |
97,177,968 |
| German Empire |
79,600,000 |
1,782,778,000 |
124,313,300 |
| Holland |
1,980,000 |
|
9,328,000 |
| Italy |
856,520,000 |
6,725,000 |
11,150,400 |
| New Zealand |
126,000 |
7,381,000 |
602,000 |
| Newfoundland |
7,200 |
312,000 |
364,000 |
| Norway |
|
8,756,000 |
1,672,000 |
| Portugal |
108,320,000 |
|
|
| Romania |
52,840,000 |
1,320,000 |
6,996,000 |
| Russian Empire |
76,620,000 |
151,633,892 |
232,813,382 |
| Servia |
6,605,000 |
|
|
| Spain |
428,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
|
| Sweden |
898,200 |
44,440,000 |
10,730,500 |
| Switzerland |
22,190,000 |
45,452,000 |
|
| United Kingdom |
26,349,873 |
1,021,123,632 |
38,133,721 |
| United States |
62,000,000 |
1,851,342,256 |
133,538,684 |
| TOTAL |
3,673,115,708 |
6,323,357,717 |
810,836,745 |
Grand total,
10,807,310,170 gallons.- American Prohibition Year Book,
1912.
Comparative Annual Cost of Liquor and
Other Things in the United
States
|
Intoxicating liquor |
$1,752,000,000 |
|
Tobacco |
1,200,000,000 |
|
Iron and steel |
1,035,000,000 |
|
Jewelry and plate |
800,000,000 |
|
Printing and
publishing |
750,000,000 |
|
Lumber |
700,000,000 |
|
Cotton goods |
675,000,000 |
|
Automobiles |
500,000,000 |
|
Woolen and worsted
goods |
475,000,000 |
|
Flour |
455,000,000 |
|
Boots and shoes |
450,000,000 |
|
Panama Canal
|
400,000,000 |
|
Public education |
371,000,000 |
|
Sugar and molasses |
310,000,000 |
|
Furniture |
245,000,000 |
|
Silk goods |
240,000,000 |
|
Potatoes |
210,000,000 |
|
Confectionery |
200,000,000 |
|
Church and home
work |
175,000,000 |
|
Soft drinks |
120,000,000 |
|
Tea and coffee |
100,000,000 |
|
Brick |
100,000,000 |
|
Millinery |
90,000,000 |
|
Patent medicines |
80,000,000 |
|
Chewing-gum |
13,000,000 |
|
Foreign missions |
12,000,000
|
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NOTES.-"Grape-juice has killed more people than grape-shot."-
Spurgeon.
"O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains!"-
Shakespeare.
"The liquor traffic is the most degrading and ruinous of all human
pursuits."- William McKinley.
"All its history is written in tears and blood."- Robert J. Burdette.
"In every community three things always work together,- the grog-shop,
the jail, and the gallows,- an infernal trinity."- Henry Ward Beecher.
"Give me a sober population, not wasting their earnings in strong drink,
and I will know where to get my revenue."- William E. Gladstone.
"I have looked into a thousand homes of the working people of Europe;
I do not know how many in this country. In every case, as far as my
observation goes, drunkenness was at the bottom of the misery."-
Carroll
D. Wright, former Commissioner of Labor, U.S.A.
"The liquor traffic is a hydra-headed monster, which, with ceaseless
and tireless energy, wastes the substance of the poor, manufactures
burdensome taxes for the public, monopolizes the time of courts, fills
the jails and penitentiaries and asylums, terrorizes helpless women and
children, and mocks the law."- Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
"I have no sympathy with the statement so often made, that the
manufacture and sale of liquor have contributed to the industrial
development of the nation. On the contrary, I believe that liquor has
contributed more to the moral, intellectual, and material
deterioration of the people, and has brought more misery to defenseless
women and children, than has any other agency in the history of
mankind."- John Mitchell, vice-president American Federation of Labor.
"The saloon is the mortal enemy of peace and order, the despoiler of man
and the terror of women, the cloud that shadows the face of children,
the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls unshriven to
judgment than all the plagues that have wasted life since the plagues of
Egypt, or all the wars since Joshua stood before Jericho."-
Henry W
Grady.
WHAT A BARREL OF WHISKY CONTAINS
A BARREL of headaches, of heartaches, of woes;
A barrel of curses, a
barrel of blows;
A barrel of sorrow for a loving, weary wife;
A barrel of care, a barrel
of strife;
A barrel of unavailing regret;
A barrel of cares, a barrel of debt;
A barrel of hunger, of poison, of pain;
A barrel of hopes all blasted
and vain;
A barrel of poverty, ruin, and blight;
A barrel of tears that run in the night;
A barrel of crime, a barrel of
groans;
A barrel of orphans' most pitiful moans;
A barrel of serpents that hiss as they pass,
That glow from the liquor in the bead of the glass;
A barrel of
falsehoods; a barrel of cries
That fall from the maniac's lips as he dies!
Preparing For Eternity
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