The Detroit times., 1915-06-11
This Is Perhaps the Worst
Indictment of Vanilla Pop

There is nothing, no, nothing which
has done so much for humanity as
whisky-except perhaps, opium, or
maybe slavery.
This, condensed. is the opinion Of
Samuel Woolner. Jr, of Peoria, presi-
dent of the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association. who, at recent
meeting of the association, acclaimed:
Liquor relieves more misery than 1t
causes. produces more JOY than sorrow,
adds to efficiency instead OF taking away
from it, is tonic for the body, produe-
ing stronger and healthier minds, is a
greater preventive of crime OF all kinds
and causes a lesser demand for institu-
lions such as jails and hospitals for the
insane, feeble-minded, etc, than would
be required under prohibition or total
abstinence"
OF course, Mr.. Woolner didn't COM
pare whisky with those other civiliza-
tion-creating and God-given institutions,
slavery and dope-but why didn't he?
Mr.. Woolner's praise Of liquor should
be lettered in gold and placed over the
entrance of every Jail, asylum and
comic weekly in the United States.
That liquor relieves more misery than
II causes will be acknowledged with glee
by every woman whose husband makes
for the saloon as soon as his pay-check
comes to his hand, and drinks up so per
cent of the amount Of the check in
exchange for the privilege Of having it
eashed.
Scarcely anyone will question that it
produces more JOY than sorrow, If one
looks at the matter from the point of
\ view Of the brewer, the distiller, the
saloonkeeper and the bartender.
That it adds to efficiency, instead of
taking away from it, is proved by the
fact that so many railroads, factories
and other institutions will not employ
men who drink, preferring those who
will show up for work regularly TO the
scholarly, brilliant men of genius who
like their sprees, work when they feel
4 Hike it, and keep the world moving by
the great ideas which booze engenders
In their gigantic intellects.
That liquor is tonic for the body is
shown by the fact that physicians pre-
vent their patients from drinking it, for
fear that they will develop cirrhosis Of
the liver, hardening Of the arteries, and
other diseases, due to the strengthening
Of the bodily tissues by alcohol.
There can be no question as 10 its pro-
ducing stronger and healthier minds, for
history and the advertisements Of our
brewers and distillers show that all the
great men whom our country has pro
duced have been drunkards, and have
accomplished their greatest deeds while
under the influence of liquor
For instance, there was George Wash
ington, who must have been drunk at
the battle of Trenton; otherwise, ho
would not have crossed the Delawar,
and taken chance amid the floating ice
And there was Carrie Nation. who
almost never smashed a saloon unless
she was under the influence
Any police justice will testify that
liquor prevents crime, and that the best
way to reform a criminal is to keep him
% intoxicated that he can't possibly
I commit burglary or shoot straight
enough to kill the man he is attempting
(. 90 hold up.
As for the inmates of our asylums fo
+ the insane, they will doubtless be very
\ Doovish when they read that if they haC
r1t consumed enough alcohol. then
10y rCnl11 have seen that they wer,