Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 18 | Comparative "Drink Bills"

COMPARATIVE "DRINK BILLS." The "drink bill" of a people is always al-ways a matter of Interest, though usually the phrase Is made to apply to alcohol, vinous, and malt liquors. But it is equally interesting also in other lines. A recent report from Consul-General Consul-General IT. Clay Evans at London, for instance, glvea the comparative figures In various drinks; the showing for coffee, tea, spirituous liquors, wines, and malt liquors consumed per capita In Great Britain and tho United States being as follows: W3 W ArllclCi v o 3 E. 3 . P 3 : p- : ColTce, per capita, pounds 10.791 0.CS Tea. per capita, pounds. L3 C.05 Distilled liquors, pur capita, gallons 1 46 1.05 Wlrtes, per capita, gallons 18 .30 Malt liquors, per capita, gallons. 18.04 20.21 The consumption of coffeo is much greater in the United States, while the consumption of tea is much greater in Great Britain. The consumption of distilled dis-tilled spirits in the United States Is nearly 40 per cent moro than in Great Britain, and the consumption of malt liquors In Great Britain Is nearly 40 per cent per capita greater than In the United States, while wine is 33 1-3 per cent greater In tho United States than in Great Britain.