The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-10
VETS HAVE A SHOW.
Two Men Before House District Com
mittee-Both Oppose Prohibi-
ton.

ton.
Andrea Barboro of San francisco
made an extremely favorable i'm
preston upon the House Distric
committee yesterday by the temper
ate manner in which he discussed
the prohibition question. Mr. Bar
! boro favored the Sims bill for abso
lste prohibition in the Distrit--witt
a material amendment excepting
from the terms of the measure nat
urally brewed beer and wines con.
tanning not more than 10 per cent OF
alcohol.
81 came 5000 miles," he said, ito
do all in my power to aid in remov-
ing the curse of drunkenness from
our midst-this curse that now af-
f1icts our country, affecting the rich
and the poor and that pervades and
permeates all the professions
But Mr.. Barboro insisted there
was right way and a wrong way,
and said that, in his opinion, If the
ideas of the radicals, who wanted to
prohibit the drinking Of wine and
beer as we'll as the drinking of bran
dy and whisky, were allowed to pre-
vail the curse of drunkenness would
be more of an affection upon this
country fifty years from now than 1t
is today. He believed, he said, that
the people of the United tSates
should be encouraged to drink pure
wines, and, if necessary, legislation
should be passed to help them along
this line.
Prohibition does not prohibit, +"
said Mr.. Barboro, enunciating the
battle cry of the "wets." Then he
proceeded to discuss the situation in
those states which had experimental
some of them for many years
with the enforcement of prohibit
ton statutes He called attention to
one particular town in Vermont
whichhad enacted such a stringent
prohibition law as to prevent the sale
of whisky and brandy in drug stores,
even on the prescription of a physi-
clan and for purely medicinal pur-
poses. Soon after this law went into
effect, Mr.. Barboro said, marked
increase of insanity was noted in the
town, and an investigation disclosed
that while the drug stores had not
sold whisky, brandy or other intoxi-
cants they had sold almost tons of
cocaine, morphine and other drugs,
the use of which had been RESPONSE
BILE for the increase in insanity
noted.
Deaths from Wood Alcohol.
Mr.. Barboro then read an extract
from San Francisco paper report
ing the death, from drinking wood
alcohol, of several sailors from an
American ship and the permanent
injury of several others He deplor-
ed the enactment that had made
dry" the locality where these sail
ors found themselves, inasmuch as
their craving for drink had been
such that they had been driven to
the drinking of poisonous wood al
cohol. In reply to question by |
Representative Sims, Mr.. Barboro |
said he thought that man, through |
usage, ETC., had come to require some
sort of stimulant, and, as prohibit
ton did not prohibit, If he could not
get it mild he would take it strong
and not bother about the quality
of the stuff he drank
Mr.. Barboro then told of CONVEX
sation he had with John P. Young.
owner of the San Francis
co Chronicle, after the latter had re-
turned from half years tour of
Europe. Mr. Young Mr.. Barboro
said, had expressed the most intense
at having seen wine drunk
everywhere In Europe that he had
gone without the accompaniment of
the slightest drunkenness. AS
matter of fact, the only drunken
man Mr.. Young had seen was in
Paris, and he had been imbibing abb
sinthe.
Just suppose for a moment" said
Mr.. Barboro, that you gentlemen of
the committee could go among the
of people in the United
would fairly approx
mate the population among which