The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-06
IF YOU MUST
DRINK PURE WHISKY, SAYS DOC.
TOR-SENATOR LANE or
OREGON.

Washington, Feb. 6. ~ United
States Senator Harry Lane of Ore
gon, who made the original and in
teresting discovery that United
States senators are just plain NUTS
like the rest of male humans, has of
fered a solution for the blind pig
problem. insofar as IL relates to gen
tlemen from other states finding Ii
quor i'm states that have gone dry.
His experience in Alaska furnished
the inspiration.
For the benefit Of those states. =
he declared, II would suggest +hey
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 enter
prising and thirsty gentlemen from
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 20 and so below zero. they
do not allow anyone TO get out upon
a long trip and take whisky with
him. III a man is me on the trail
and il is ascertained he has whisky
with him ii Is taken away from him
and the bottle 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 il is necessary to do so,
for the reason that under the inhu-
ence OF liquor a nan 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 and if he has
whisky or alcohol they take ii away
from him and break the bottle"
other views of the Oregon sena-
tor. who is a physician. are not ex-
aetly orthodox on this same subject.
Il do not think alcohol is a direct
cause of a large proportion of insan-
ity,' he says. Il do not think that
large tables of statistics ii carefully
analysed will show that il is the old
alcoholic. the chronic drunk. who, as
IA rule. goes insane. He becomes a
hobo; he becomes a 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
a 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. | 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
aso 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.
| think, killed off as quickly. and |
think more quickly. than those who
confne themselves to the use of pure
whisky.
IF a person is going to drink at
all, if he wants to get drunk. if he
desires a stimulant, as a physician
who has practiced for forty years. l
would say TO him. get good, pure
whisky. 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 a mat
ter of economy. If you really wish
to use alcohol and get the effects
from it without any subterfuge or
fooling about it. ii is the safest drink
of ALL"