Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1913 — United States Consumes More Beer Than Germany Does. [ARTICLE]

United States Consumes More Beer Than Germany Does.

It is generally thought that Germany drinks, more beer than any other nation in the world. This is a mistake. Germany comes second. The United States consumes 1, 851,000,000 gallons of beer each year, which is 100,000,000 gallons more than Germany’s consumption. Russia leads the world in its use of distilled liquors, and the United States comes second with its consumption of 133,000,000 gallons. Although the United States is first as a beer-drinking nation and second as a consumer of distilled spirits among the nations of the world, the liquor dealers of America are having a desperate fight for the life of their traffic. The saloon has been expelled from one-half the population and from two-thirds the geographical area of the country. In 1868 there were 3,500,000 people living in territory where the drink traffic had been outlawed; in 1900 the number had increased to 18,000,000; in 1908, or only eight years after, the number had doubled to 36,000,000, and today there are 46,029,750 persons, or a fraction more than one-half of the population of the country living in no-license territory.' In has increased a little more than 10,000,000 which is more than) 10 per cent of the total population of the nation and 30 per cent increase in the number living in “dry” disricts. Since 1868 the population of the country has doubled, while the number of inhabitants of “dry” territory has increased thirteenfold.