The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-03
Harry Lane Makes Interesting Discov-
cry Concerning Congress Members
and Offers Solutions to Problem. &
SHOULD ADOPT PLAN OF EsK1Mos
Says Whisky May Be Correctly Used
as Stimulant But Warns Against
- High Wines and Beer.
BY Burton X. Standish.
(United tPrsss)

Washington, Feb. 8. - Senator
Harry Lane of Oregon, who made the
original and interesting discovery
that United States senators are Just
plain NUTS like the rest of male hui
mans, has offered a solution for the
blind pig problem, insofar as it re-
lates to gentlemen from other states,
finding liquor in statestthat have gone
dry. His experience in Alaska fur
nished the inspirations. -
For the benefit of those states
he declared, II would suggest they
adopt the method of the Eskimos to
protect their food supplies from the
ever-hungry malamute dog, which is
to cache it upon a platform about 20
feet above the ground. Doing this
they would compel lenterprising and
thrifty gentlemen from other states
to seek their soalce ia the open air
by means of a ladder
Alaska, by the way. has furnished
Senator Lane. with considerable ar
gument against liquor.
Take It Away. -.
''In the interior Of Alaska" he
says, where the temperature goes
down to 70 and 80 below zero they
do not allow anyone to get out upon
a long trip and take whisky with him.
If a man is met on the trail and it is
ascertained he has whisky with him
it. is taken away from him and the
bottles broken. They do not do that
out of feeling of kindness toward
him particularly, but they have
found, and from experience, that it
is necessary to do SO, for the reason
that under the influence of liquor
man on the trail will take chances
that he otherwise would not take If
his feet or hands become frozen, the
whole EXPEDITION is tied up taking.
care of him. So they go right
through his pack anusiif he hasAwfis-.
ky or alcohol they take it away from
him and break the bottle.''
Other views of the Oregon senator,
who is physician, are not exactly Or
thodox on this same subject.
Resumes Normal Condition.
II do not think alcohol is direct
cause of large proportion of in
sanity" he said. IT do not think
that large tables of statistics if care
fully analysed will show that it is
the old alcoholic, the chronic drunk,
who, as rule, goes insane. He be-
comes hobo; he becomes nuisance;
he is the cause of misery to his chill
dren, he makes his wife unhappy and
is the cause of his children not hav-
ing enough to eat and to wear; he
may become shattered physically but,
as rule, he does not become insane.
After he quits drinking, as rule, he
resumes his mental condition and
lives along without becoming insane
do not think much of statistics
which try to show that he furnishes
the largest proportion of the inmates
of insane asylums, for the reason
that my experience is to the con-
trary."
"But if you are going to drink, "
says the senator, drink straight
booze - = r
Drink Straight Booze.
II think my friend from MISSISSIPPI
pi, Senator Williams, is mistaken If
he thinks that alcoholic drinks de-
rived from the grape, the fermented
liquors in contradistinction to those
that are distilled, are less harmful.
1t is my opinion that he is decidedly
mistaken The Englishman and the
Scotchman and those people of Eu-
rope who drink heavy port wines are,
think, killed off as quickly, and
think more quickly, than those who
confine themselves to the use of pure
whisky.
IF person is going to drink al
all, if he wants to get drunk, if he de.
sires a stimulant, as a physician who
has practised for 40 years, say tt