WHICH IS CORRECT?

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1791, 29 September 1874, Page 2

WHICH IS CORRECT?

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —The insertion of the following comparison will show that your contemporary has yet much to learn, at least on the liquor question:— <

ADVBRTISHR. NEW ZEAIiAND HERALD. Sept. 28,1874. Sept. 28,1874. " Teetotallers have stri- t ' Men will become afven to frighten us, tot flicted with delirium treonly as to the utterly mens or confirmed lunacy abominable nature of al-. by excessive indulgence in cohol itself, but as to alcohol without its beiaj' adulteration, &c. It is adulterated, and we have comforting to think that the authority of Dr. Carif we do not get wine when penter in saying that the we ask for it, we get V^xe* alcohol is the more something that does not insidious is its power ri po'son us." weakening the brain and producing mental diseases —it is, he maintains, because pure spirits, when highly rectified, do not intoxicate so < rapidly as when svdu'terated with noxious drugs that they are ultimately more destructive to the brain or

the whole System."

Dr. Hector, the Commissioner of Customs, and other officials state that neither the spirits nor the beer sold by importers or retailers are adulterated; yet Colonel Mole states—"The majority, perhaps, of thes3 lunatics arrested were suffering from delirium tremeHS," arising—he thinks, in opposition to the other and on this matter more competent authorities—a good deal from the prevalence of adulteration. In this young colony, nearly one person each week committed to the lunatic Asylum, bereft of their reason, is the term " trafficking inthe blood of souls'' too strong a term to apply to the traffickers in strong drink ?

1.0. G.T.