REAL OLD SCOTCH.
A story of certain methods adopted to obtain intoxicating drinks in the Tlntited States, where the law of Prohibition is in force, was told by .Sir F. Seager Hunt, M.P , to a meeting of licensed victuallers at Leamington. Apropos of the Direct Veto Bill, he remarked that in America the liceuingquottion had occupied pie-eminent attention, and great alteiations had bepnuf <ade in the licensing laws of the Star-, seventeen of which had adopted total I'robibition, with the result that there bad been an increased consump lion of spirits to the extentof 7 924,000 doi in value, and a like rise in the consumption of beer, A friend of his on e'tering a Slate in which total Prohibition was iti force said : "1 want r-pirite, but I know it is impossible to get them here." The shopkeeper answered : "We do not sell spirits but we have a cholera mixture which you will find very ooml'oi ting." His friend purchased the cholera mixture, which proved to be a whisky which he had himself distilled in Scotland.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 116, 20 February 1895, Page 4
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177REAL OLD SCOTCH. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 116, 20 February 1895, Page 4
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