BAD WHISKY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 15

BAD WHISKY

j It is not whisky, but bad whisky, that ifl responsible for so much came and rn.Ktn'. Tnu* is the "ov.cluftior. of a med.caT man who has given parucu. iar attention "iO the drinfc crave tie hrys that mot of the whisky Gold is only a bad imitation of the real Bluff, Good whisky ordinarily makes a man familiar, garrulous, good Batumi, confiding. ii r doesn't want to kill 11* wants to enjoy himself. Tut thp \n« decoctions which arc -sold as xvhn-ky make a man crazy. He is in no e.nse ■ rc ponsible. | It is high time, he says, the law | realised that liquor can produce tcm. porary paranoia. A perfectly sain man, docent, mu-abiding, absolutely nonnai, can by U Ik* turned into an im-lpon* Bible person, who cannot he blarnco fox : his act®. For the lime bc.ng, wholly ’ without any in.cut upon ins part, ho is to all intents and ins.me. One effect of whisky—pariicu.arly bad wlur.ky—is that it destroy# iho memory. A man has no rc-co lection of what h* hie done while ' under i;« influence, AnoMr-r serio-vi fioc-l is that a pennoa urmer its influence all sense of p -rsonal Uic-iil.t: v. A man may go foi dav ( and noi know b.n>Ecll, v not knou who h** is. Uo is in reality absent from himself.