People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — The Swelling Tide of Destruction. [ARTICLE]

The Swelling Tide of Destruction.

The people should be reminded, also, that the consumption of beer (according to the last government report) has increased from two millions of barrels, in 1802, to thirty-five millions of barrels, in 1893, —this being an increase of over seventeen times during the past thirty years, while the population has only doubled,—and now averages three barrels of beer annually to every voter or family in the United States, while the consumption of other intoxicating liquor has also largsly increased. It is significant that while this increase has been going on the arrests for crime have also increased fivefold during the same period. —From “Our Nation’s Peril,” in Demorest’s Family Magazine for February.