Logan Nation | 1901-12-24 | Page 8 | Local News

The common notion that Germans v are the heaviest beer drinkers is refuted refut-ed by statistics published by the British Board of Trade. Last year every German, Ger-man, on the average, drank twenty-' twenty-' seven gallons, while the average Eng lishman drank thirty-two gallons. The consumption in the United States was less than half as much, per capita, as in Germany. With the exceptions of the Belgians, the British are the largest larg-est beer-drinkers in the world, and the consumption has grown rapidly during the last fifteen years. A sharp change toward total abstinence would compel a recasting of budgets, for last year 36 per cent of the net revenue of Great Britain was derived from the taxation of beer, wine and spirits. i