WISHY- WASHY ON WHISKEY
Barry Lorch in his San Diego Union column told of a debate on the floor of the United States Senate about 130 years ago. The issue was whether alcohol should be sold in the territories seeking statehood. One notoriously anti-alcohol senator, who, according to one description, was so dry he was a known fire hazard, challenged one of his colleagues to state his position on alcohol. Supposedly his colleague stood up and said this: “You asked me how I feel about whiskey. Well, here’s how I stand on the question. If, when you say whiskey you mean that Devil’s brew, the poison spirit, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yes, literally takes bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man from the pinnacle of righteousness and gracious living and causes him to descend to the pit of degradation, despair, shame, and…
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