WHISKEY DOWN AND COFFEE UP.
The outcry against strong drinks from some of our most eminent doctors and scientilic men seems to be exercising a very marked effect upon the liquor trade of the country (remarks the “ European Mail.”) Last year the consumption of wines, spirits, and beer showed a fallingoff to the extent of over £14,000,000 sterling, thus reducing the drink bill to an amount below that of any year since 1871. Doubtless some of the decrease is owing to the badness of the times, but it is not wholly attributable to this cause, as some people have suggofted. If it was, the consumption of other things, such as tea and, coffee, would also have shown a decrease ; but while intoxicating liquors fell off to the extent of AS per sent, the consumption of tea, coffee, and cocoa increased 2.6 per cent clearly proving that the reduction in the former case did not arise from the crippled resources of the people, but from a change in their habits due to the spread of temperance truth, to the establishment of coffe-house, and to improvements in the general legislation of the country.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2271, 28 June 1880, Page 2
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191WHISKEY DOWN AND COFFEE UP. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2271, 28 June 1880, Page 2
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