Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-10-24

whisky to his boy. His conscience
was perfectly clear upon that mat
ter. Many of the readers of this ar
ticle will remember the chemical
experiments and analyses made for
the Ladies' Home Journal some time
ago. when that journal gave to the
public the properties of a number
OF patent medicines. During our
conversation I had noticed a bottle
of one of these tonics on the mantel
shelf. According to chemical anal
ysis this bottle on this temperance
mans shelf contain about 60 per
cent OF alcohol. After changing the
subject matter for time, stepped
over to the shelf. picked up the bot
tie and inquired who was using this
remedy "Why, my boy has been
taking that. He felt so badly that
had to make him take half bottle
the first night" came his answer.
"Did he feel better after taking the
medicine?p Iasked "Yes," he re-
piled, "he picked up right away AMI
felt better" ] then asked him what
was in that bottle. He gave me the
name shown by the label. But,
that is not what I want to know"
said I. 81 want to know what is in
the bottle. "Well, l don't know"
he answered. I then proceeded to
tell him. "There is about 60 per
cent whisky in that bottle" said 7.
"You have just told me that you
were ready to shoot any man who
would give whisky to your boy, and
here you are, his own father, max.
ing him drink half a bottle of this
connection in one night" The ex-
hilerating effects noticed by his
father were just the same as though
the boy had drunk whisky straight
While l am not undertaking TO
deny any good effects from taking
whisky under another name, yet
hesitate to affirm that drinking wh's-
ky under the name of whisky is any
worse. The innocent drink of the
soda fountain sometimes contains
drugs, highly attenuated of course,
that are well known to be- deadly
poisons. Yet here was man ready
to murder and kill over whisky
spelled WHISKY, but at the
same time pouring the same stuf
down his boys throat, spelled some
other way. 1t was in order for him
to shoot himself, according to his
declarations. have noticed. how
ever, that he hasn't done 1t yet He
is probably thinking about it.
Try as we may, under prohibition
notions, we are inconsistent. Under
various names we start pouring
whisky down our children before
they can talk or walk. Who knows
but the appetite is created in in
fancy? Here is a field overlooked
by the prohibitionists. Here is 4
more common use of whisky than
the saloon can ever aspire to. We
drink at a saloon voluntarily, but IN
helpless infancy, we are compelled
to drink whisky whether we want 1t
or not.
AS an ordinary observer, 1t oc'
ours to me that the traffic in whisky
spelled TONIC is a better field
for good than trying to make a lot
of fool men vote out the saloon. So
long as we are feeding out little
children on whisky at home, we
might as well let the old man take
a drink of 1t up town. Where's the
difference?
The best field for people who real
ly want TO help the world Is to get
down to practical methods for lift-
ing mankind out of poverty. Power
ty is responsible for the white slave
and kindred businesses and the
white slave business is responsible
for the popular contamination re-
Gently charged to the American peo-
pie. The good women interested In
saving the men should devote lit
tie time to their unfortunate sisters
Here Is much better field for prac-
ticaI results. The moral and physl-
cal future OF our race is depending
upon virtue more than upon the
consumption of whisky.
The world is moving slowly. but
moving. OBSERVER