The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-14
.DOCTORED BOOZE
NOT HEALTHIEST
President of Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association Contradicts
Wholesalers.
(From Wednesdays Advertlser.l


The argument, advanced by the
wholesale liquor dealers in their hear
ing before the license commissioners,
that imitation whisky is less harmful
than the pure, unauthorized beverage
is fatty contradicted by physicians. One
physician, who asked that his name be
not mentioned, but who has had wide
experience as police surgeon and in
hospital work, stated last evening that
such is very far from the case.
"'You find the crazy DRINKS, the men
who have to be restrained by the po-
lice, among those who consume adulter-
ated liquor" said he. "When a man
of the upper classes overindulges in
liquor he does not go about for days
after with bloodshot eyes and wild
look. But the man who gets his
"drunk' in dive, often does not re.
cover for a week.
81 see that the argument is advanced
that overindulgence is what kills, and
not the inferior quality of the liquor.
1t has been my observation that the
man who confines himself to pure
liquors rarely reaches that stage of con-
tinual intoxication which ultimately
ends in death from alcoholism. Where
man of the upper classes meets that
sort of death, you win usually find that
he had sunk to the point where he had
been patronizing dives of the lower sort
and imbibing no one knows what sort
of liquid poisons.
81 do not wish to be understood as
excusing overindulgence in any sort of
liquor, but certainly if a man must
drink he should confine himself to the
purest liquors which he can secure. The
man who gets drunk, beats his wife and
lands in Jail is the man who acquires
his liquors in the cheap dive"
Chemists View.
~ see that the argument has been
advanced that compound WHISTLES are
better than the pure, aged-ip-wood
brands because they frequently con.
tain rather less alcohol,' said a chemist
is said and done it is the alcohol pres
ent in whisky, in one form or another,
which is injurious. But, there is
blended with the many other ingredi-
ents in distilled whisky, aged in the
wood, and raw alcohol poured into a
mixture of whisky, water, burned sugar
and mayhap some other even less at
tractive components. Any one who has
ever seen an alcohol drinker, one of
those unfortunates whose diseased
thirst has reached the point where moth
ing but clear alcohol will satisfy it.,
knows what a pitiful spectacle he is.
1t is that same raw alcohol, sold in
compound" WHISTLES, which is SO
very injurious"
From Liquor Man.
That all of the liquor dealers of the
city do not agree with the claim ad-
vanced by the wholesale dealers asso.
citation that doctored liquor is better
than pure, is evidenced by the follow.
ing letter, received yesterday afternoon
by The Advertiser from p. +. Ryan, the
president of retail dealers association:
1t was with good deal of surprise
that read in yesterday mornings Ad-
vertiser statements quoted to have come
from the wholesale liquor dealers in
Honolulu to the effect that doped whis-
ky is better than the pure article. L
take exception and differ from them.
From such an argument you might as
well say that oleomargarine is better
than pure cream butter When q doc
tor prescribes for a sick patient he pre-
scribes for pure liquor and if it is too
strong, he will adulterate it with pure
water. 1t may be legal under the pure
food law to sell imitation whisky but
1t is up TO the liquor commissioners /
think, to refuse people licenses that
sell such stuff. There are firms in Ho-
nolulu that do not carry a rectifers ,
license and | deal exclusively with one
of them. i think it no more than fair,
that instead of making sweeping
charges, your paper should publish the
names of those whom you know to be
selling imitation whisky"
A Correction by Buchly.
R. J. Buchly yesterday sent the folr
lowing letter to The Advertiser in ex,
PLANTATION of some of the statements
| attributed to him in the papers ac,
count of the meeting of the license
commissioners Monday:
Permit me to correct misstate-
ment appearing in your columns of this
mornings issue of The Advertiser, con.
corning my remarks at the meeting OF.
the board of license commissioners held
on the 10th inst.
~ am quoted as saying, sit is good
for children of five or six to have a
glass of light wine.
"This, however, is an error. In
commenting on the degree of alcoholic
strength of claret, as compared with
Madeira and Tokay, / gave it as my
observation that in the southern coun.
tries of Europe, children of FIVE and
six years Of age were permitted by
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