The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-02
MAKING BAD WHlSKEY
BLAMED FOR PROHIBITION
Englishman Says the Brewers Could
Haved Saved the Sit
uatiOn.
(By Herbert Corey)

WHISKY ndu DceH SOou "ilohy anu
American beer good beer, there would
be no prohibition in the United States
on July ].
That is the conclusion an eminent
British whisky drinker has come to.
He landed in town not very long ago,
and has sampled our product over
many bars. He thinks that prohibition
served III right. He says that if we
had gone a little further and arrested
some of the brewers and distillers-
and, above all, the "rectifiers"- on
a charge of attempting to poison the
world, we would have been justified.
He says that he used to sell trade gin
to South African natives, and that he
has always been ashamed Of it.
That Trade Gin Powerful.
zone bottle of that trade gin," he
said, "would take the leaves off a
forest. A drop of it would eat through
the hide of a hippopotamus. But it
was good gin compared to some l
have smelled in this country. l have
never tasted any of it. I'm too WISE"
This sturdy British drinker thinks
we will be much better off to stop the
production of all American whiskies,
gins, applejacks, brandies, and other
headache coaxers for a little while.
"Then you might call for a new
DEAL" he said. "Pass laws requiring
a high standard of excellence in the
stuff, and then enforce the law. But
you won't. You are great on passing
laws over here, but you do not enforce
many of them. You are a lawless and
disorderly people. Maybe after you
have quit being poisoned by this stuff
you call whisky your heads will clear,
and you can see clearly"
you're not against whisky?"
81 love it, but l mean good whisky
not %forty-rod."
Finds Some Brands Good.
This is not a shotgun charge fired
at all American beers and WHISTLES,
He expressly reserves certain brands
from his condemnation. But, broadly
speaking, he thinks that America did
right in driving the present breed OF
distillers and brewers out of business
"It was up to them to clean then
own STABLE" said he. "But they die
not. They would be surprised to Learn
how few of the drinking men of Amer
lea sympathized with them. The drink
, ing man knows that his whisky wa
getting progressively worse and more
expensive and he still has fighting
blood enough left to be glad that tn
whisky makers have been put out O
business.
, This Englishman~says that Englan'
y will never have prohibition; but tina
neither will England ever go back t
. the bad old days when bars were KEEP
o open eighteen or twenty hours a day
Pays to Restrict Traffic.
"We drank too much" said he
"There was too much drinking anon
y women before the war. The workin
q men and women spent too large
- share of their wages for liquor. w
know now that it pays to restrict tn
traffic"
' If the English WHISTLES and beer
had been as vile stuff as the averag
American whisky or beer Englan
might have had prohibition, too, /
thinks. He doubts this. It is MOI
likely that the quality of beverage
would have been improved by statu1
at the same time that the restriction
on drinking were put in force. B,
because English whisky and beer al
good and Wholesome, if any of tt
. stuff is wholesome" the people
England refused to have what he cal
"a normal and natural enjoyment
taken away from them.
Decrease in Drunkenness.
Since the anti-treat laws have bee
in effect in England, coupled with tt
. laws reducing the alcoholic contel
. in beers and WHISTLES and reducir
! the number of hours during whit
public houses may be kept open, fou
. fifths of the before-the-war drum
. enness has been done away with,
. says. The ~by-products of excessi:
. drinking-pauperism, crime, hi,
. death rate, social misdoing-have al
been greatly decreased, he says.
"We have actually accomplished
England everything that the most e
. IRENE advocate of prohibition in t
United States hopes for" said he. 4"
consequence the prohibition moveme
. in England is dead. One never hea
= of it any more. But there is not t
. slightest chance that the alcoholic &C
!. tent of our beers and WHISTLES "
!. be largely increased, or that the fl
!. mer go-as-you-please policy for p,
= lie houses will be restored. We KIN
F when we are we'll off.
T He suspects that prohibition