Show tie drink question oz ia in Irela inqui ild vie T fie spectator in the year 1881 I 1 thea ther were N 2 publics 1 fox every of the population of irelan iu in there were ivere 34 3 for the same o 0 I 1 ber her in jn 1881 3 2 the arre arrelius lits for fur for every ot of the population were 15 in 5 they were in 1881 2 1 the money value ot the intoxicating I 1 quor consumed per head by the population was wis xa 2 Is aj in 1884 5 it had risen to xa 2 as 4 ad if we take the grosa grow hum of thu the increase of the money value of the intoxicating liquors consumed in ireland when these same two year years 11 1881 1 a aud ud 1884 1881 5 are compared the toi fol significance of these figure figured can be en een the total amount P cent ent in i 1884 15 5 on drink is larger large r bv by than that spent in 1881 2 1 iti three years the drink bill ia in ireland rose by it id is a most sio singular gular fad fact that this eum sum ii is almost exactly the total amount f the reductions made under the lan ian I 1 act of 1881 in thoe those years instead of the savior in rent going to rabe the moral 0 or material condition of the peasantry it apparently y went into the publican public ana pockets if its andrack aly ill to td be a choice between whisk Y and rack renting it seems doubtful doubt lul ill i whether hether the tile drink tyrant ia is not as s bad ai as the mast rapacious of land lurda it rd a what makes the in the C ci 1 I 0 of f stimulants in ire ic III laid particularly la r I 1 I 1 ii I 1 heartening is tie fact that in england an and d acot land the people have bien been 11 headily pending spending ipsa I and leel lets on intorica ting liquors instance in stance this hearit year return how that while england compared kith laet last year lim ha reduced her consumption of as it beverage by gallon gallons and scotland bag decreased created de by gallon gallong ireland he hai a increased hera herd by gal ion we learn also from thie this year returns that where an englishman h drinks one bottle of opi i pinie rits au go irishman frish mau drinks two luthe case of spirits epi rite these figures show nothing ID as to the consumption of if whisky illicitly distilled alk abie is ii is in ireland however a very important maller since last year ear there were 1 1186 cae of IT illicit licit di distilling tilling against 9 in england |