Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-31
WAR AND JOHN BARLEYooRN.

While the United States senate had under consid
rfafan the bill to provide further for the national
ecnrity and defense by encouraging the production
conserving the supply and controlling the distribu
ton Of food products, Senator Lawrence !. Sher
man Of illinois, in ringing speech from the floor,
not only condemned the pse Of grain at this time
for the manufacture Of whskey, but gave the assur
ance that he would do his part to bring about the
complete surrender Of John Barleycorn. he said
ID part @ Z.
From what source comes the clamor for food
control outside Of governmental circlesf From the
consumer in cities. have from the cities great
mass OF correspondence from my own and adjoining
<iafes. In that correspondence not solitary pro-
ducer Is heard, not farmer, but in every instance
the man on the pay roll in great industrial center,
the merchant producing nothing, those on the pay
rolls Of the great carrier systems Of Chicago, in the
great industrial center Of Peoria. ILL.,. where grain,
rorn barley rye and even rice are used in the manu-
facture Of distilled and malt liquorseven there we
are told by some OF the residents of that city that
there must be q conservation Of food supplies!
eWhat mighty sarcasm on the economics Of the
United States that from the greatest whisky-pro.
dncing center in the world, that mashes more corn
ii her distilleries aud dainns more souls with her
beverage products in il months than any other
place in the civilized world, are approached with
desire on their part to conserve food products!
replied to those gentlemen living in the great whisky
belt Of this continent. advising them to begin at
home and using the admonition in a certain pass
e Of Scripture to pluck the beam out of their own
eve before they see the mote that is in mine Let
alcohol for industrial, chemical medical purposes
me arts and sciences, be made but cease its manu-
faeture for drink. .-a..
aIf an AllWise Deity keeps books on worldly
AFFAIRS will take my chance in the final audit with
ANYBODY that lives that manufactures whisky to be
used as beverage. -
II an. not q prohibitionist. am not even tee
fofaler. never professed to be; but will help
elf am willing to do without it in order to con-
.erve the food supply while this war is on; am
erfectly willing to do without it after the war is
over. because by that time think shall be pretty
veil weaned from any desire for that form Of ex
K;larafion. If the ordeal of war shall burn into
6nr understanding the madness of turning grain
into whisky we can afford to pay the price
.,Thie war is no summer holiday. It will not be
,-.r Nv the time the hazel nuts are beginning to
t,sak fhe burr and the peeans are falling on the
<vshash River bottoms 1t will be here o long time
s, - et fhe conservation of food supplies by stop
-, he manufacture of intoxicating liquor now,
-. g No I,se of any of us to take the pledge The
80; - events viii be pledge enough by the tine this
...'T.rnv aifRculty in Europe is over"
-. o,nan,s battalion at Smorgan has not left
1eAs -. - ants who argue that because she
Ss1sn't fight woman sh0p'dn't vote
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