The preceding table shows that the total quantity of distilled spirits of all kinds consumed in the United States during the year ending June 30, 1896, was 71,051,877 proof gallons; of wines 18,701,406 gallons, and of malt liquors of all kinds, 1,080,626,165 gallons; a total of all kinds of liquors of 1,170,379,448 gallons. To reach an understanding of the actual growth in the use of liquors the per capita consumption must be studied. This also is given in the preceding table. In the per capita consumption of both distilled spirits and wines a marked though irregular decrease is shown, while an increase quite as marked is shown in the case of malt liquors. The consumption of distilled spirits per capita, shown to have been 2.52 proof gallons in 1810, had declined to 1 proof gallon in 1896. For wines, the figures were 0.29 gallon in 1840 and 0.26 gallon in 1896. Malt liquors, which showed a per capita consumption of 1.36 gallons in 1840, had risen to 15.16 gallons in 1896, while for all liquors the consumption had increased from 4.17 gallons in 1840 to 16.42 gallons in 1896. The quantities shown in the preceding table include liquors consumed for all purposes, not only as a beverage, but in the arts, manufactures, and medicine. At the Eleventh Census an investigation was made to ascertain the quantity of distilled spirits consumed in the arts, manufactures, and medicine. Inquiry was made of manufacturers and wholesale druggists, eleemosynary institutions, and retail apothecaries. The number of proof gallons of distilled spirits consumed in the arts, manufactures, and medicine, as disclosed by this investigation, is shown in the following table: PROOF GALLONS OF DISTILLED SPIRITS CONSUMED IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MEDICINE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1889. [The facts are from returns made to the Eleventh Census by manufacturers, wholesale druggists, eleemosynary institutions, and retail apothecaries.] This table shows the total consumption of distilled spirits in the arts, manufactures, and medicine during the year ending December 31, 1889, to have been 10,976,842 proof gallons. Of this amount about threefourths, or 7,966,640 proof gallons, was used by manufacturers and wholesale druggists, 2,907,412 proof gallons by retail apothecaries, and. the remainder, 102,790 proof gallons, by eleemosynary institutions. The total consumption for all purposes of distilled spirits, wines, and malt liquors of all kinds during the year ending June 30, 1889, as shown in a previous table, was 894,655,061 gallons. If it be desired to obtain the quantity used strictly as a beverage, there should be deducted from the above total the quantity used in the arts, manufactures, and medicine. So far as distilled spirits are concerned this amount was shown in the table immediately preceding to have been for the year ending December 31, 1889, 10,976,842 proof gallons, and may be assumed to have been approximately the same for the year ending June 30. This, deducted from the total given above, leaves 883,678,219 gallons as the amount of all kinds of liquors consumed as a beverage. If the same deduction be made from the total quantity of distilled spirits consumed, viz, 80,613,158 proof gallons, it will be found that the quantity used as a beverage was, for the year ending June 30, 1889, 69,636,316 proof gallons. The quantity given above as the consumption in the arts, manufactures, and medicine represents, it should be noted, distilled liquors only, no account being made of wines and malt liquors which have quite extensive use in medicine, though not in the arts and manufactures. The census investigation referred to did not extend to wines and malt liquors, and no figures are available even to form an estimate. It appears that there were 4,197,938 gallons of liquors of domestic manufacture exported during the year ending June 30, 1896, and 1,029,653 gallons of distilled spirits of domestic manufacture that had been exported and returned as imports, and 5,454 gallons of the same class of spirits reexported after having been exported and returned. There were also 8,973,300 gallons of liquors of foreign manufacture imported. and 131,354 gallons of liquors of foreign manufacture exported. The five tables that follow have been compiled from the reports of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, and show for the fiscal years 1890 to 1896, inclusive, the quantity and value of the different classes of liquors of domestic manufacture exported, the quantity and value of the exports of distilled spirits returned, and the quantity and value of the reexports of distilled spirits; also the quantity and value of the liquors of foreign manufacture imported and exported: QUANTITY AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINE, AND MALT LIQUORS EXPORTED, 1890 TO 1896. QUANTITY AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC DISTILLED SPIRITS EXPORTED AND RETURNED, 1890 TO 1896. QUANTITY AND VALUE OF DOMESTIC DISTILLED SPIRITS EXPORTED, RETURNED, AND REEXPORTED, 1890 TO 1896. QUANTITY AND VALUE OF FOREIGN-MADE DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINE, AND MALT LIQUORS IMPORTED, 1890 TO 1896. 1830. 1891. 1892. 1893. 18 4. 1895. 1896.. 1, 601, 238 $2,214,200 850, 440 $4,752,572 4, 276, 842 $4,107,384 2, 680, 030 $1,427,608 9, 408, 550 $12,501,764 10, 402, 560 13, 982, 498 9, 371, 817 12, 525, 573 10, 133, 239 14, 146, 042 7, 885, 094 9, 749, 849 8, 544, 753 10, 758, 831 8, 973, 300 10, 909, 655 QUANTITY AND VALUE OF FOREIGN-MADE DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINE, AND MALT LIQUORS EXPORTED, 1890 TO 1896. |