The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-04-01
A WISDOM TOOTH.
A Business Man on the Habit of Using Intoxi-
eating Liquors.

eating Liquors.
A business man of San Francisco has
written letter to the Examiner of that
city touching the habit of using intoxi-
eating liquors. Because of the unique
ness of the story and the number of peo-
pie who will recognize themselves as
sympathetic brothers the same is here
reproduced, emitting the name and adj
dress:
! am and have been for over thirty
! years moderate drinker, or at least
what most drinking men call a moderate
! drinker.
never actually become intoxicated
during business hours, and seldom at
any other time, never so but that am
capable of taking care of myself and
knowing right from wrong.
Still am in the habit of drinking
from ten to twenty-five drinks day,
and having prided myself on being
moderate drinker l thought l knew
when had enough.
old German ex-saloonkeeper who was
placed upon the witness stand as an ex-
pert, in the case of man arrested in a
temperance town for selling beer. When
asked by the judge whether he con-
sidered beer as an Intoxicating beverage
he replied: 'Vell, shudge, l drinks me
bobut eighty or ninety glass beer day
und it don't have any effect on me;
don't know what it might do to a man
who made a id hog OF himself"
Mr.. Editor, read your article in the
Examiner of Sunday, March =, cartoon
ed by Davenport, "The Dead Sea of
Civilization and have since then come
to the conclusion that the man who
made and the man who sold the whisky
were no id fools. But the men who
drink the whisky for the sake of good
fellowship deserve the BOBBY prize.
dare say that the story of my life is
but repetition OF the story OF hun
dreds, perhaps thousands, of other men
in San Francisco.
lam a business man, but no matter
how pressing the business, at certain
hours during the day Through force of
habit | must take time to cross the way
or go up or down the street to my regular
whisky place Il call it mine, for l have
paid an exorbitant price for the place..
Well, meet friend, or perhaps two or
three, as go into the place. l invite
them to drink with me we talk of the
events of the day, but before l can get
out of the place my friends insist upon
returning the compliment and may be
forced through good fellowship to take
two or three more drinks.
buy fairly good whisky for IS gallon,
and keep some of it at my office and
some at the house. But | never think
of drinking it except on occasions when
l have friends or visitors. A gallon will
last me a couple of months or more. But
my daily visits to my whisky place cost
me at a reasonable estimate So day
and fear that is below the actual cost.
| lndu WOulu Ildhc, utuuClllS VIC sun
days, about $53 month for my whisky
place.
/ buy about three $40 suits OF clothes
year, and one suit at $50.
Mr.. Editor, "The Dead Sea OF Civiliza-
ton" has cut one wisdom tooth. l am
going to slip the cut, and buy few $50
suits of clothes and save the money |
am squandering on the three 500 and
one $50 suit every year.
am going to continue to keep my
whisky at my Office and at the house; l
don't think it is whisky that makes
fools and drunkards, but good fellow
ship is the pit into which we are most
apt to fall.
Put almost any man alone beside a
washtub full OF whisky with a tin dipper,