PROHIBITION AS AN INCENTIVE TO DRINK.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3069, 17 January 1894, Page 4

PROHIBITION AS AN INCENTIVE TO DRINK.

The /Scotsman says ■■ jii- *■■ THare ft "a great body of evidence to^hb^tfcal prohibition lias encouraged 1 cfefinlin% in tie home and f amily and in* railway carriages j that it tends to deteriorate the drink and lower and debase ffi surroundings of drinking, besides teaching all manner of hypocrisy and dishonesty* A whole vocabulary *of names has sprung up to denominate the places' where drink is surreptitiously obtained.- > Amonjgf " j then* are 1 joints,' * dives, 7 « kitchen bar^rOoms,* * speakeasies/ < biiad pigs, ? '* bfind tigers/ and < hdles^M-tl^JwaTl^^f which last-the peculiarifyii that seller and buyer do not see one "another. The law has stimulated the invention of ' pocket-peddlars *■ and { bootleggers,' in which liquor may be moist secretly and portably carried; For purposes of sale liquor has Been concealed in receptacles tiiade to resemlire books^ especially Bibles; Alcoholic drinks are dispensed by the chenaislp as -* bay turn,' ■' essence of 1 spirits of camphor,' Itikfment,' ' sweet cider,' * crab flp^je cider,' ' hop tonic/ r hoj> tea,' * essence of Jamaica ginger/ thiB f lasfc being considerably more intoi|ca|ting than whisky ; while whisky itself masquerades £8 '*. cold teft % ot>* white ink.' Atlanta^ the capital of X3teot^ld has been one of the latest witnesses of the application and failure of prbMbjition in a hazy town cominunitjr. THe saloons were closed, i; and a roaring '■ jug ' trade at once sprang uj. Atlanta reverted to a licensing system 4 ; the law is no longer in conflict with the public sense of what it ri^ht and reasonablej andthe town is at once freer and more sober than under prohibition.' r -