Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
PUBLIC OPINION
Home Made LIQUOR.

EDITOR NEWS:
In reading the resolution drawn
up by the Perth Amboy Medical So
lefty and also your editorial in regard
to spurious vinous and malt and fer
mented liquors. / think the doctors
are not the only ones who have oc-
casions to visit the homes of the
people. In fact / think no one comes
in contact with all classes of people.
more than the insurance agents who
visit ninety per cent. of the families
regular. As / am only one of these
agents, / have occasion 10 visit about
lfourty TO fifty families every week in
one of the most foreign sections of
this city, and about fifty to-eixty more
families also of the most thickly pop
iulated foreign sections q few miles
outside Perth Amboy. / come to just
as many of the American class and /
come to them at different hours dur
ing the day and so far / must say i
have not found anything carried on
in regard to what their resolution
states that i~ntoxication has become
alarmingly more prevalent than be-
fore the enactment of the Voistead
Act.
In the Perth Amboy section es-
pecially, which l cover I have never
seen a still or any ''m~oonshine" made
SO far. / have covered said section In
Perth Amboy for the last year and
a half, and 1t would be a wonder il
I should not come into at least n
family who was in the act of max
ing "moonshine" II II Is becoming so
alarmingly prevalent. Nevertheless 1t
has never happened to me yet lin
Perth Amboy.
In our section outside Perth Am
boy I will admit / have come into
about half a dozen families where
the distillation of liquor was In pro-
cess of being made. but at that, 1
dren intoxicated in any of the houses
so far.
Mr.. Editor / am only one of the
many agents going around every
week amongst the families and II
ANYBODY have the confidence of the
people / believe 1t is the insurance
agents. They ought to know some
thing about the conditions of the
families IN every town or city. ] do
not believe there is much disttllation
of liquor going on and especially In
houses where there is sickness n
they expect the doctor on visit. for
they would lot like to be caught n
ridiculed by the doctor for making
ana QTl1klne II. So nv lctSiohSAS
are the people meant the most in re-
gard to that resolution. / think 1t Is
like an insult to them. If the Amer
lean class of people is meant, l think
II is still more of an insult as they
are intelligent enough to know bet
ter than to haye their women and
children getting intoxicated. No
doubt some "moonshine" making is
going on but so far / have not seen
1t In Perth Amboy in that foreign sec
ton consisting mostly of Polish, Slav-
ish, Hungarians and Russians. Other
insurance agents are going around to
houses every day ali owe the city.
and II would be interesting to hear
from them, as they are in contact
with all classes and nationalities per-
haps more so than the doctors. Do
not think l am trying to smoother
things over but why should such a
resolution be drawn up IL it was not
to help the liquor trade and down the
law of the United States, not to speak
of gaining votes at the election. The
condition will be still, worse from a
health and economical standpoint, II
we get back to the times when we
could get a can of beer for a dime and
half a pint of whiskey for a quarter,
than they are today.
DE. OLSEN.
261 Gordon ST.