TEA CONSUMPTION IX ENGLAND. 121 



A man who drinks tea once a-day, consumes 7^ Ibs. 

 yearly. Twice a-day, 15 Ibs. yearly 



Say, 15 Ibs. of tea at 100 cents per lb., - - $15 

 To every 1 lb. of tea 8 Ibs. of sugar would be used, 

 or 120 Ibs. sugar, say 10 cents per lb., besides 

 milk, - - 12 



To one person only $27 



a year for tea and sugar for a poor man, who has his tea 

 twice a-day. Will the friends of temperance look to 

 this, and consider the expense to a poor family not only 

 in America, where there is more employment and better 

 wages, but in the mother countries, where labor is at a 

 low price, and the poor man s means scanty to a painful 

 degree. 



It can be seen from the above, that the great bulk of 

 the people is denied the use of tea. And therefore it is 

 that- some 100,000,000 Ibs. are only consumed in all 

 Europe, America, and all the English colonies. 



Supposing one-half of the population of China drinks 

 tea once a day, i.e. 180,000,000, at Ti Ibs. each 

 1,350,000,000 Ibs. Then take all the east, Thibet, Ne- 

 paul, Burmah, Siam, British East India, Persia, Turkey, 

 all Europe, Russia, America, including north and south, 

 Africa, Australia. In all these countries, more or less 

 tea is drank. There are, alone, 200,000,000 of people 

 in British East India, all of whom would drink tea, if 

 they could obtain it. To say, what may be the extent 

 to which tea may be consumed, would be impossible. 

 But to suppose, that if the people of England and Ireland 

 could have genuine tea at 20 cents per lb. instead of 

 the mixed quality they now get for 100 cents, it would 

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