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

xvtilethe United states senate had under consid.
4fnn the bill to provide further for the national
et'<ity ind defense by encouraging the production
con<efvinQ the supply and controlling the distribu
ton Of food products Senator Lawrence Y. Shef
man Of Illinois, in ringing speech from the floor
not only condemned the use OF grain at this time
for the manufacture Of whiskey but gave the assur'
ance that he would do his part TO bring about the
complete surrender Of John Barleycorn. He said
ID part:
tsErom what source comes the clanor for food
control outside Of governmental circiesf From the
consumer in cities. have from the cities great
mass Of correspondence from my own and adjoining
states In that correspondence not a solitary pro.
Queer 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
nreaf industrial center Of Peoria H. where grain,
corn barley rye and even rice are used in the manu-.
,atfufn of distilled and malt liquors there we
are told by some of the residents of that city that
there must be q conservation of food supplies
.1Fhat mighty sarcasm on the economics Of the
United States that from the greatest whisky.pro.
iuoiDg center in the world, that nashes more corn
Ii her distileries and damns more souls with her
beverage products in u months than any other
place in the civilized world, we are approached with
4 desire on their part to conserve food products!
replied to those gentlemen living in the great whisky
helt Of this sentiment, advising them to begin at
home. and, using the admonition in certain pass
age Of Scripture to pluck the beam out Of their
eve before they see the mote that is in mine Let
alcohol for industrial chemical, medical purposes
the arts and sciences be made but cease its manu-
fnctdre for drink
sIf an AliWise Deity keeps books on worldly
Affairs will take my chance in the final audit with
ANYBODY that lives that manufactures whisky to Be
nsed as beverage.
Il am not q prohibitionist. ] am not even a tee
fofaler never protested to Be; but viii help
hiring about the day when even can not get it my
f6lf am willing to do without it in order to con
serve the food supply while this war 10 on; I am
perfectly willing to do without it after the war is
over because by that time think shall be pretty
ven weaned from any desire for that form of ex
hilaration. II the ordeal Of war shall burn into
our understanding the madness of turning grain
into whisky, we can afford to pay the price
eThis war is no summer holiday. II will not be
over by the time the hazel nuts are beginning to
break the burr and the pecans are falling on the
Wahash River bottoms. It will be here long time |;
We get the conservation Of food supplies by stop
ping the manufacture Of intoxicating liquor now,
there is no use Of any Of to take the pledge. The
logic Of events will be pledge enough by the time this
unhappy difRculty in Europe is over.
That woman's battalion at Smorgan has net left
I.trh Tor tie ants who argue that because she
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