The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-06-28
June IL, 1929.

June II, 1929
Editor, Great Falls Tribune,
Great Falls, Montana.
| have read with much interest
the articles dealing with Illicit
liquor in Great Falls which ap
peared in your paper May 20 and
two or three days following.
While parts of these articles are
misleading and some of the con
clusions, l believe are not well
founded, much of the material is
true and you are deserving of Gre
dit for bringing these d~eplorable
conditions to the attention of the
public.
| have no doubt but what the IL
licit liquors sold in Great Falls
are honestly described in these ar
tieles and they are doubtless just
as poisonous as claimed, the same
is true of all moonshine liquor. |
have been so sure of this fact that
for more than a year | have been
showing in most parts of the state
a five reel motion picture, THE
Triumph of Justice, which re-
veals the same truth in a very
convincing manner
AS Superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of this state, ap-
preciate the fact that at least one
of the principal newspapers of the
state has told the truth in regard
to the character of the stuff folks
are drinking. Too often, the press
on the use of such connections. |
thoroughly agree with your state
ment; Anyone who drinks boot
leg whiskey in this community is
a reckless fool" and | will go
further and say that is it foolish
to drink alcoholic liquor of any
kind at any place, or at any time.
OF course, | note your defense of
pre-prohibition booze, but, as a
matter of fact, those who were in
a position to gather the facts are
generally agreed that much of the
liquor sold in the saloons OF the
past was doctored, sometimes two
or three times. While it probably
met the government requirements
when it left the manufactures or
bonded warehouse, it was very diff
ferent when consumed by the pub
lie. Even 1929 moonshine is no
more a poison than the stuff sold
in the saloons of the past. OF
course, any statement from me
will be classed by those of the
wet persuasion" as radical or
fanatical, so l shall endeavor to
refrain from expressing personal
convictions and quote recognized,
reliable, scientific authorities to
present the facts | believe impor-
tant. DR.. Geo. H. Bigelow, Com
missioner of Public Health of
Massachusetts has said. 1T is
claimed by many persons that If
pure whiskey is furnished it can
be drunk by many persons with
IL puIlIy old WlbiiOub ihJuiy "
sons making this argument ignore
the fact that alcohol, the princi-
pal constituent of whiskey, is a {
poison. Others have stated that /
raw, unaged whiskey is full OF fu- |
sci oil, aldehydes, etc, which are Y
violent poisons. 1t can be readily s
ascertained by looking over the |
literature that aged liquor, or so '
called pure liquor, contains more
oil, aldehydes, acids, ETC., I
than does unaged liquor. The e
Alcohol Investigation Committee, L
appointed by the British Medical L
Research Council at the request c
the Secretary of State of Home
of the Brisish Government A
says of alcohol, at is, in short,
the first to the last a mar
drug. T
Arthur Dean Bevan, M. D. Pro
lessor of surgery, Rush Medical
College, former president of the Z
American Medical association,
says, "Viewed from the standpoint
modern scientific medicine, al D
cohol belongs to the group to mar
which consist of alcohol, ,
ether, chloroform, choral and SIM
lar drugs, such as sulphonal and
yeronal." So, if it is foolish for n
In individual to use narcotic drugs
he leaders of medical science
throughout the world justify me u
n my statement-It is foolish for
to use alcohol liquor of any G.
lind. And DR.. Bigelow at least
PRESENTS a very different point of
Jew from that attributed TO DR.. =;
F. Walker by the Tribune. 81
Your statement regarding deaths -,
rom alcoholism and arrests for -
MODIFICATION in Cascade county are 7
indeed most interesting. You state =,
Increase in the death rate from Z,
lcoholism in Great Falls and Cas- Or
ade county approximate 500 per Il,
ent from 1918 to 1928" State ~
ecords show that on Nov. Z, 1916, g.
he citizens of Montana adopted
bone-dry prohibition law and IT