Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-06-17


poor devils who drank it were hum
plugged and drugged. A certain rec
tiher' on Second South makes whis-
key that he sells for ten cents per half
pint, 20 cents per pint, 40 cents per
quart, SLIGO per gallon, retail. A bottle
of the stuff is yclept a Mickey" and
is bought by men of the Eph Kelly
class. 1t is alcohol, cheap, doctored
wine and analine dye; that's all. 1t
will kill ait longer range than
Krag-Jorgenson; it will chase you by
your tracks in the snow and get you;
when a man drinks it dog will not
bite him, and he can sleep in a stable
full of mules and never get kicked.
There ought to be law making
such work a felony, but there isn't,
and this rectifier gets off free Not so
his victims. They are the men who
get fined for drinking, for poisoning
themselves. If the United States,
which has more to do with the liquor
traffic than the states themselves
would only declare a certain standard
| for all beers, wines and high wines,
and punish severely those found with
any adulterated, or doctored alcoholic
fluids in their possession, drunken
ness, so-called, would soon decrease.
Wine should be made from fruit juices;
not log wood and cotton batting, mixed
with cheap alcohol and coloring mat
ter. Beer should be brewed from
hops and barley; not made up of rice,
aloes and rosin. The average brewery
doesn't use anywhere near the amount
of hops 1t used to, because hops are
expensive. High wines should be dis
titled according to a standard of pur-
ity.
No man ever started out to get sod
den drunk. He drinks because he
wants to be happy; because he wants
to become exhiarated; because he
wants to get up a pleasant sensation
and alcohol in limited quantities helps
him along. But with the beer, the
liquor and the doctored wines he gets
the first thing he knows he Is elected.
Had his beer been pure and well aged;
had his wine been fruit juice ferment-
ed; had his whiskey been properly dis
TILED and aged; had his gin been
manufactured from juniper berries and
his rum from the molasses of Jamaica.
instead of being adulterated with old
boots, Kerosene, plug tobacco and all
sorts of stuff, he would have got en- a
small bender and awoke next morning
with no dark brown taste in his
mouth. But it wasn't, and hence he
needed Hunyadi, Red Raven Splits and
Cascarets next day. Then, after a
while the poison fastened on him and
he fell away entirely.
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SO l say, first compel the sale Oh
pure liquors. Then, if men want to
drink, the bad effect will be lessened.
Next, limit the quantity to be sold to
the individual. When he shows SIGNS
OF eXhilaration let him be cut off, for
he has attained his object. Fix GER
tain hours for the sale and consump-
ton of liquor and observe them. There
is no use of drink shop keeping open
| after o'clock in the evening or open-
ing up before in the morning. If
government runs the saloon, so much
| the better, but in any event permit no
person to buy enough to get drunk as
we understand drunkenness-not as
the Pennsylvania courts interpret it
ana where man demonstrates by past
conduct his unfitness for drinking, re-
fuse him entirely If that is done the
| effect will hn hnnaGo;-1 i,