The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-24
REPLY To Mr.. CROWLEY.

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EDITOR BULLETIN: - There are
some men so satisfied with the eX-
tent of their own knowledge and
attainments that they regard with
contempt all who will not accept
their dictates, and stick at nothing
to silence or hold the obdurate ones
up to ridcule. These worthless be-
long to that class
Gas who should say, am Sir Oracle
And when | ope my mouth let no dog
bark
1t has been my evil fortune to
encounter one of these estimable
characters, accordingly l must take
the consequences.
A few days ago you were kind
enough to publish an article of mine
on the issue of liquor licenses on the
other islands. This article has been
reviewed by another of your corre-
spondents, who misrepresents me
by saying "the idea was apparently
abandoned as soon as thought of,
and the writer set himself to what
he no doubt thought the easier task
of ringing changes on the word
Temperance. "
BY no means. the idea dominated
throughout and | adopted the style
of reasoning which l considered best
adapted to the subject. This will
appear by the terms of the last
paragraph, which commences, "The
writer then has come to the conclu-
sion that the issuing of licenses for
the sale of fermented liquors is a
wholesome measure"
into a political disquisition and
mixes up his vast stores of historical
knowledge into such delightful
hotch-potch of confusion that it
would take his hypothetical school
boy to straighten them out for him.
Had he added the torture chamber
and its myrmidons, the sack, thumb
screws and other horrors he would
have made his article more dramatic
if not more relevant to the question
| unuer discussion.
He next tells about some wor-
thies who agreed to fine themselves
for getting drunk on any other than
certain specified days, but with them
we have nothing to do, believing
that no one has a right to get drunk
at all.
From the physiological stand
point it is pretty certain that more
men kill themselves by over-eating
than by over-indulgence in fer
mented liquors. Such at least is
the experience of trained and prac-
tised physicians-nine to one is the
proportion | have heard-hence it
follows that in the gentleman's S
creed all solid food should be in
cluded Gas well as wine) in the class
of poisonous drugs.
My critic thinks that any Sunday
school boy could correct my display
of ignorance in believing that all the
wine of antiquity Commonly used
as beverage) contained spirit. !
do not require such assistance, as
can refer to authorities in which !
place more trust; but ] have no
doubt such boys would speak as
they have been taught. On the
other hand l do recommend my
very learned reviewer to ask any
boy moderately well read in history
to set him right on matters l have
already touched upon, as well as on
his ancient quotation, whose hoaI
and venerable antiquity actually
dates back to so remote period as
trihe before the middle of last
century, and then-was it by al
! error of the poet?-the lines APP
peared in an inverted position tc
) that in which they are now placed
The definition of the word "wine'
. in Worcester's dictionary, edition
, 1916, is this: "The fermented
juice of the grape. A liquid resem
r bling wine in flavor and qualities
: The spirituous product of fermenta
: tion." This agrees perfectly witt
!, other and older definitions. Now W.
all know that fermentation is natu
rat process by which spirit is gener
: ated. We likewise know that nei
ther the juice of the grape nor an.
other liquid containing saccharin
matter can be preserved for an,
length of time in an unfermente'
state; that the first fermentation j
7 a process of preservation instead o