The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-29
The Liquor Question.

UPPER GLOUCESTER, Jan. q, 1879.
MR.. EpIToR:-Being informed that my
explanatory reply to the unfriendly criticism of
my former communication was lost thought
would let ths matter drop but being reminded
that ought to respond in order not to be mis-
understood will endeavor to correct any mis-
apprehension drawn from the statements in
my first article. lntemperance in every one of
its aspects is so revolving, even when produced
by wine as pure and healthy as that upon
which Noah was drunken and upon which he
lived three hundred years, that there is no need
of exaggeratiop, for the simple truth can
scarcely express all that is bad about it,
1t was not my purpose to represent that the
various liquors are manufactured at the
State agency or any of the agencies in the
STATE, but that they might be and probably
were go manufactured at the liquor store.
houses where they are originally purchased, it
being easier, cheaper and more profitable to do
so than to produce each kind by separate dis
tillatiop.
1t does appear to me-that any other I'M
Outstanding of what 1 wrote was farfetched
and the probable result of hasty and careless
reading, for should be sorry to conclude as
some have done that the principal organ of the
Republican party iD the Dirigo State is indlf-
fersnt or unfrien0ly to the cause of temperance.
A gentleman well known among the ad-
vo ,ates of temperance, whose name l do not
feel at liberty to use without his knowledge
and consent, but from whom l should be glad
to hear if tnls correspondence shall meet his
eye, Informed me that he was present when an
order was received at a wholesale liquor
establishment for several kinds-three or
four-whether for an agency or not do not
recollec', and that hs saw the alcohol for the
same all drawn from one cask and the several
kinds manufactured with chemicals right
before his eyes without any attempt at conceal
ment, and when he remarked upon it was told
it would be found all right when the liquors
arrived at their destination.
II has often been affirmed by men who pro.
TESS to known that the vineyards of Europe
and California do not furnish wine suficient to
supply the demand, and that the French wine
for expectation is largely manufactured with
out the juice of the grape and that French
brandy in manufactured in the same way. 1t
not go why are thousands Of gallons of whiskey
exported from this country to France to make
brsndy,as was stated by recent correspondent
OF the PRESS.
I hope some gentlemen who are recognized
authorizes on this subject will speak, If
am right l wish to be confirmed and ii wrong
to be corrected.
AT to the medical effects Of different kinds
VI Aquois, we nust ieato tue quesbiou " tuo
psychologists and chemist, who will be as likely
to disagree IS other intelligent persons. My
own opinion is that the alcohol is the only
agent needed and if that we're removed nobody
would use the remains for medicine or any
other purpose.
For one l desire to see the liquor traffic
driven from the State and t. see Name stand
forth first among the supporters of sObriety,
honesty, rruthfulness and every virtue needful
to constitute happy and prosperous people and
to sustain good government.
D. L. GRANDIN