Whisky Advertising and Temperance
By Editor
The Catholic Mirror, published in Baltimore, says:— "Two young men of tender years engaged in the difficult task of consuming between them a bucketful of whisky which they found in the cellar of a drinking place in Chicago, the other day. They accomplished the feat, but were not able to enjoy the pleasure of the triumph. One of the young men shortly died in the most horrible convulsions, and at last accounts the other was in a fair way to share the same fate. There is a salutary lesson to be learned from the fatal experiences of these Chicago youths." We wonder if the moral the Mirror would derive from this occurrence is that those who drink whisky should eschew the Chicago article and use only that made at the Baltimore distillery advertised in its columns; or perhaps the editor of that journal thinks that the only brand of whisky used should be that advertised in the Mirror. A paper that expects to have much influence in favor of temperance should not advertise distilleries and their products.