THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILEY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1879.
Hitherto America has been considered the greatest liquor consuming nation in the world,, as every- man, woman, and child in the States spends £2 10s on drink annually. Our Yankee friends, however, hare lost their prestige, as it is proved by recent statistical returns that our own colony, occupies the premier position amongst the imbibing nations of the earth, as with a population of under half a million of souls £4 per head is spent annually on intoxicating drinks, or a total of £2,000,000. Our national debt now reaches the respectable total of £22,000,000, and some people are already shaking their heads seriously, and wondering how it is to'be paid. Our public works only produce enough to pay the interest on the debt. "Were the money spent in drink annually by our people deroted to the liquidation of the national debt, in eleven years we would owe nothing. Our working population would save one million sterling annually by being total abstainers. There is something for Good Templars to work upon.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3295, 14 July 1879, Page 2
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184THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILEY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3295, 14 July 1879, Page 2
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