Arizona republican., 1908-04-30
EXCELLENT AUTHORITY
 FOR USE OF WINE
There Are Other and More Forms of
 temperance.

To the Editor of The Republican. Sir:
 The all absorbing topic of the day
 now is the temperance question. Please
 allow me space in your valuable paper : to say that there's scarcely one man in 1 a dozen that don't take a royal old ! nip exactly when he feels like it. re- gardless of all the temperance howl 1 CTS in the world. Who turned the ! water into wine at the marriage feast 1 in Cana? Why the blessed Master 1 did, and if it had been the sin the tenn : perance people claim, He never would i have handled it. for He was pure and without sin. This was done to prove ] to the people that He could perform miracles, but il was with wine all the same. Temperance people also say that t iS sin to use intoxicating drinks. I say they tell a lie. an odi- ous damned lie, upon my soul a lie. a wicked lie" Wine has always been used since the world began but that don't mean that d man should make a
 beast of himself. Wine is the joy of
 the heart and the soul" When YOU come to shut of the liquor saloons in
 Phoenix. right then and there voum
 see a mighty big difference in the
 population of Phoenix. as business will
 go down, and those not tied up with
 property here, will leave this place
 in mighty short order. One can eat
 and drink too much of any thing to
 injure them. person can drink too
 much water to hurt them. and so it is
 with alcohol. l had two tenants just
 left a house of mine. a man and his
 wife. and the woman was drunk near
 ly all day shut up in her home. drunk
 with morphine. so much so that she
 locked herself up in the house Co keep
 me from going in. l tell you how
 know. Shed come out on the porch
 about o'clock in the afternoon and
 sit there and slept. and perfect
 wreck she Was. Her husband is a
 bartender in saloon in Phoenix. and
 drunk nearly all of his time on whisky
 Which is the worst. morphine or
 whisky? Morphine by far. for when d person is a slave to that there is no lettup with them and when they be- come fully addicted to it when the drug has done it's work. &ath claims them.
 I understand the matter will be put 10 the people shortly to decide wheth- CT the saloons are to be allowed to go on. l know how that will end; all ways of the two evils. choose the least Liquor does no harm, if people know how to use it. It is onIyI the fool who should never touch whisky or any in toNicating drinks But it is very costly luxury. and if l could afford it I'd send over to France and buy the best wine I could find Port wine is my favorite beverage There is no physician in the land today but who will recommend whisky when the pa tient needs it. That does not mean that a doctor gives his patient whisky to get drunk oI There's a certain doctor in this town (and an Irish Ro- man Catholic he is) who pretends to oppose the drinking of whisky. Pro ably he's got an axe to grind" of some kind. Look at the Catholic l clergy. They all drink wine. and those 1 gentlemen don't make beasts Of them selves. If man gives as a reason that liquor injures his health or that 1 he cant afford it. two good reasons 1 why he should let it alone. As we say in French. "Cela est ten pachers,' i that there are so many fools in the i world who are temperance fools. There ! is not a member of congress in a dog 1 en who don't drink his wine at dinner. |