The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-24
PROHIBITION A FAILURE.

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PROHIBITION A FAILURE.
TO the Editors Of the N. P. Farmer.
The male champion Of our crusa-
der sis not aware that charging a
man with "excess Of spirit in his
daily beverage, etc., till he sees doub-
le,'' is charging that the man is
drunken; or, that charging q man
with writing that which is contrary
to reason, experience and fact, is
charging that man with ignorance
and falshood. His bubbles, con-
tradictions and assertion, made it
evident to your readers that either
w. S. II. or d., had undertaken the
exposition of problem upon which
he WAS comparatively ignorant and
unreliable; and your readers had Il
right to know which of the two Was
the charlatan. In this dilemma. /
referred to the indOrsment OF my
character and writings, by the best
scientific authorities. W. $. II. now
assai!s my quotations from the Scien-
tifc AHaerican with ridicule, and III
sinuates that it is either above or
beneath notice. am stranger here
and it appears that lie is well known
to the readers of the FARMER, us the
proprietor of a neighboring gristmill.
also AIN a mill man, the author OF
The Practical American Millwright
and Miller,' published by II. Carey
Baird. of Philadelphia, and am the
patentee of the 'Craik Turbine Manu-
featuring Company, of La Crosse, is.,
and n,y position can be seen in the
s'North- western Miller." lately of
Lii (ros> now of Minneapolis.
AL crusaders brand those who tell
the plain truth on the subject of
temperance as rummies employed by
the saloon keepers. Thus Neal Dow
brands DR.. Crosby. the Business
Mems Moderation Society, and all
the advanced temperance men of
every station, and thus W. $. II. and
his abettors ;fould like to brand me.
IN self defence, I may state that l
have long since learned to digest all
the spirit consume from vegetable
fooa, in the process of nature. That
have drank only one glass Of Whis-
key and two of beer, since ] came to
Wadena year ago, and there is but
one saloon keeper in the world whom
I would know in his own saloon,
either by sight or name. After this
explanation, may state that neither
Liebig, nor any other chemist ever
said anywhere, that alcohol is formed
in the stomach during digestion.
Gas heat and diluted spirit, are the
first products Of digestion, and the
last are acid: crude blood, and refuse.
But either fire or alcohol in the stom-
ach, would destroy life quicker than
". S. II. s flask of fine shot,. The d.
luted spirit goes direct to the brain,
and is consumed as it's lubricant and
fuel, as fast as it is generated whe3.
all is IN equulibriun.. But spirit is
often digested in the stomach of
savage, or Il totalist, faster than the
depleted brain can consume it, and
then it produces intoxication. Oliver
Wendell Holmes says: Il have often
seen Micmac Indian get gloriously
drunk on half a tumbler of sugar and
.water.' And Neal Dow complains,
that when families of pledged ab-
stainers get often drunk on the newly
expressed juice of apples.' And he
''would make the punishment for
selling glass of that juice, hanging
for the first offence, for that it had
got to come to- Will it ever come
to that, or is Neal Dow vision.
ary fanatic? Let each reader stop
and decide which. In experiments
with similar vinous foods, / have
frequently produced intoxication, but