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Friday, January 19, 2007
A politician's take on alcohol
A congressman, so the story goes, responds to a constituent's request for his views on alcohol by saying, with conviction:
If when you say "whiskey" you mean the devil's brew . . . the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery, and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children . . . then certainly I am against it with all of my power.
But if . . . you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts, and laughter on their lips . . . then certainly I am in favor of it.
This is my stand, and I will not compromise.
(From Of Saloons and Social Control: Assessing the Impact of State Liquor Control on Individual Expression, John M. Faust.)
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