Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-02-08
OREGON SENATOR
TALKS ON BOOZE
(By Burton X. standish. }

OF Oregon, who made the original
and interesting discovery that United
States senators are just plain NUTS
like the rest of the male humans, has
offered solution for the blind pig
problem, insofar as it relates to gen
tlemen from other states finding
liquor in states that have gone dry.
His experience in Alaska furnished
the inspiration.
For the benefit of those states"
he declared, 81 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
twenty feet above the ground. By
doing this they would compel other
states to seek their solace in the open
air by means of a ladder"
Alaska, by the way, has furnished
Senator Lane with considerable argu-
ment against liquor.
I'm the interior of Alaska" he
said, where the temperature goes
down to 70 and 80 below zero, they
do not allow any one to set out upon
a long trip and take whiskey with
him. If man is met on the trail
and 1t is ascertained he has whiskey
with him, it is taken away from him
and the bottles broken. They do not
do that out of any feeling of kindli-
ness toward him particularly, but
they have found, and from expert
ence, that it is necessary to do so.
for the reason that under the influ-
ence of liquor man on the trail will
take chances that he otherwise would
not take. If his feet or hands be-
come frozen, the whole expedition is
tied up taking care of him. So they
go right through his pack, and if he
has whiskey or alcohol they take it
away from him and break the bottle"
Other views of the Oregon senator,
who is a physician, are not exactly
orthodox on this same subject.
II do not think alcohol is a direct
cause of a large proportion of insan-
ity," he says. 81 do not think that
large tables of statistics if carefully
analyzed will show that it is the old
alcoholic, the chronic drunk, who, as
a rule, goes insane. He becomes a
hobo; he becomes nuisance; he is
the cause of misery to his children;
he makes his wife unhappy and is the
cause Of his children not having
enough to eat and to wear; he may
become shattered physically, but, as
rule, he does not become insane.
After he quits drinking, as a rule he
resumes his normal mental condition
and lives along without becoming in
sane. l do not think much of statis-
tics which try to show that he fur
nishes the largest proportion of the
inmates of insane asylums, for the
reason that my experience is to the
contrary"
But if you are going to drink, says
the senator, drink straight booze"
Il think my friend from Mississip-
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,
1 think, killed off as quickly, and
think more quickly, than those who
confine themselves to the use of pure
whiskey.
"If a person is going to drink at
all. II he wants to get drunk, If he
desires a stimulant, as a physician
who has practiced for forty years I
would say to him, Get good, pure
whiskey. Leave wine and beers out.
You will last longer and do yourself |
less harm and the result will come
cheaper in the long run. 1t is |
matter of economy. If you really |
wish to use alcohol and get the effects |
from 1t without any subterfuge or
fooling about it, it is the safest drink !!
of ALL
az say this in order that those who |
are going to continue the use of it
may have the advantage of my study
on the subject. If they want straight.
unadulterated liquor upon which to
get drunk. let them use pure alco-
hol, cologne spirits, the alcohol itself
diluted with water. You will all do
better to stick to pure whiskey rather
than to go fooling around high
Wines"