The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-19

/ At the fourteenth annual conference
| of Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws, whose proceedings are pub
lished with the transactions of the
itwenty-seventh annual meeting of the
American Bar Association (held at st.
Louis in 1900 an address was delivered
by DIR. r. 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:
| 4 have insisted that it should not
be special legislation. I am enough of
! a democrat, although I am a republi-
can, to believe that we ought not to
have special legislation. I do not be-
lieye in any kind Of sumptuary legis-
lation which says that a man shall not
eat or drink what he wishes. What l
/ do believe in is that when man does
! want to eat and drink anything he
ting, and then if he wants to eat it
or drink it that is his business. I
don't know whether any of you gentle
men are in the habit of taking a nip
of distilled spirits or not. do it my
self sometimes.
"You will be surprised to know that
! s. per cent at least of every brand
of distilled spirits that is sold in this
country today. except, perhaps, those
grade restaurants and hotels, is syn
thetie from beginning to end. Is that
right to the man who drinks? 1t is
bad enough, I am told to drink any
way even the real stuff. What is it
when you drink the imitation? Yet
there is absolutely no protection"
1T is mostly watered, is it," Mr..
|Staake of Pennsylvania asked.
"Oh, no., DR.. Wiley answered. There
kind of spirits? Let me tell you. Not
long ago 1 wanted a glass of beer as
1 was thirsty, and 1 was in a part of
Washington that 1 was not very famil-
, lar with, and I passed place where
thought I could get a glass of good
beer, but as 1 got to the door I did
not like the looks of the people in the
place and / passed along further where
I saw a place of very inviting appear
ance and went in. The class of GUS
toners did not seem any better, how
ever, than they We're in the other place,
/ but 1 wanted my glass of beer anyway,
and / remained.
| There We're two men who had order
ed whiskey, and they had each a glass
as big as a water glass, and they filled
and then drank a glass of beer on top
/ of it. 1 said to myself that those men,
and they We're laboring men in ap-
pearance, must be giving their whole
wages for the drink. They had in the
| saloon one of these cash registering
devices that rings up the amount of
the purchase, and 1 saw that the charge
for each man was five cents. What
kind of drink do you suppose it is
that can be sold for that price?
I well, on the other hand, take the
high-grade man. What does he get for
his money? He goes into a high-priced
place and he calls for whiskey, and he
is handed out bottle of whiskey that
is advertised as being twelve or four,
teen years old. What he gets, how
ever, is whiskey made the day be-
fore out of a barrel of spirits taken out
of bond and diluted with water. colored
with burnt sugar and prune juice and
favored With artificial essences. Es-
peeially is this true if it is Scotch
wfiskey.
II have in my possession a large
number of bottles of essence of Scotch
whiskey and with directions for MAX
ing it. You know how popular Scotch
whiskey is nowadays, especially in the
clubs and hotels. l have looked into
the statistics and I have found that
the quantity of spirits imported last
year from Great Britain was less than
600,oO0 gallons. That included alcohol
and so-called brandy Why. do you
know that would hardly supply the
Scotch high-balls that are drunk in the
United States in single month. And
this Scotch whiskey is made in the
same way that I have prescribed, by
adding some Of this essence. which is
principally creosote distilled from wood
to give the burnt flavor"
| rs creosote injurious?" Mr.. Russell
of Connecticut inquired.
1T is very fine preventative" DIR.
i Wiley responded, and if people drink
enough of it their bodies will not de-
cay when they die
/ Now. the only security which you
have in YOUR WhiSkey to6ax ;s .ha 1,o,-