The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-08-22


Laws, whose proceedings are pub
lished with the transactions OF the
twenty-seventh annual meeting of the
American Bar Association (held at st. |
Louis IN 1900 an address was delivered |
by DR.. u. w. Wiley. chief chemist of |
the United States Government, on pure |
food legislation. He was giving Illus |
trations to show the general principles |
upon which such legislation should be
drawn, when he said: |
II have insisted that 1t should not
be special legislation. l am enough of
a democrat, although l am republic
can, to believe that we ought not to
have special legislation. l do not be-
lieve I'm any kind of sumptuary legis-
lation which says that a man shall not
eat or drink what he wishes. What 1
do believe in Is that when man does
| want to eat and drink anything he
| should get what he supposes he is get
ting, and then If he wants to eat 1t
or drink 1t that is his business.
don't know whether any of you gentle
men are in the habit of taking a nip
OF distilled spirits or not. do 1t my
self sometimes.
| "You will be surprised to know that
IS per cent at least of every brand
of distilled spirits that is sold in this
country today, except, perhaps. those
sold in clubs and in some very high
grade restaurants and hotels, is syn
thetic from beginning to end Is that
right to the man who drinks? 1t is
bad enough, / am told, to drink any
way even the real stuff What is 1t
when you drink the imitation? Yet
, there is absolutely no protection"
1T is mostly watered, is it"' Mr.
Stake of Pennsylvania asked.
ooh, no. DR.. Wiley answered. There
is plenty of spirits in 1t. But what
kind of spirits? Let me tell you. Not
long ago l wanted a glass of beer as
, l was thirsty, and / was in part oil
Washington that l was not very famil-
lar with, and / passed a place where
I thought | could get glass OF good
, beer, but as / got to the door l did
, not like the looks of the people In the
place and | passed along further where
/ saw place of very inviting appear
, ance and l went in. The class of Gus
toners did not seem any better, now
ever. than they were in the other place,
hut | wanted my glass of beer anyway,
and | remained.
, "There were two men who had order
ed whlskey, and they had each glass
as big as a water glass, and they filled
their glasses and drank the whiskey
and then drank a glass of beer on top
Of It l said to myself that those men,
4 and they were laboring men III ap-
I ,earance. must be giving their whole
wages for the drink They had III the
saloon one of these cash reglsternis
devices that rings up the amount Vi
the purchase, and 1 saw that the charge
for each man was five cents. Wha'
kind of a drink do you suppose II is
that can be sold for that price?
.NYeu, on the other hand, take the
biph-grade man. What does he get for
his money? He goes into high-priced
Mace and he calls for whiskey, and ne
&c handed out o. bottle of whiskey that
, Is advertised as being twelve or tour-
teen wears old What he gets, now
ever, is a whiskey made the day De-
fore out of barrel of spirits taken OUT
of bond and diluted with water, colored
with burnt sugar and prune juice ana
favored with artificial essences. Es-
. pecially is this true If 1t Is Scotch
|
e whiskey.
at have in my possession a large
{ number of bottles of essence OF scotch
O whiskey and with directions for max
Q ing it. You know how popular Scotch
l. wkiskey is nowadays, especially In the
g clubs and hotels. l have looked into
4 the statistics and I have found thai
: the quantity of spirits imported last
ifai N 40 less tlaT
: 600 600 gallons. That included alcoho
and so-called brandy. why, 90 you
;, know that would hardly supply the
b Scotch high-balls that are drunk IN tht
UNITED States in a single month. Aho
S this Scotch whskey is made IN the
J. same way that 1 have prescribed, pS
!: adding some of this essence, which Is
!, principally creosote distilled from wooc
y to give the burnt flavor
rs creosote injurious?" Mr.. Hussei
of Connecticut inquired.
: at is a very fine preventative DR.
}, Wiley responded, land If people drinf
!, enough of 1t their bodies will not de-
0 cay when they die.
Now, the only security which you
have in your whiskey today Is the gov
eminent stamp. This is the only an
solutely certain way to know that you
: get bottle of real whiskey, ana II
a the bottle has been opened in a saloor
Z 1t may have been refilled again WITH
4 some other mixture"
e Answering other questions on tins
\ part of his subject, DR.. Wiley sale
Il that when whiskey was made it was
a put in a government bonded warehouse
q and the maker of 1t had no access t'
y 1t after that. When he wanted to taxi
= that whiskey out he paid the duty OF
1t, and then it was his to do what h'
pleased with it. But he could go II
% there under the supervision of tbs
: revenue officers and put it in bottles
q and the revenue officer then put
2 stamp over the cork.
q But can II be adulterated before i
g is put in there?" Mr.. Pollard of Vir'
y ginia queried.
D. mo, SIR" was the answer; "becaus'
Sc it is distilled under the supervision O.
" the United States revenue officials
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