MISS HUGHES' STATEMENTS.
To the Editor. Sir.—'•Matron" criticises Miss Hughes now she is at a safe distance and cannot reply; but, though 1 hold no brief on her "behalf as to her platform manner, 1 do feel at liberty to reply on a matter of fact. "Matron" says "there was uiui'h that was untrue—as when intoxicants were denounced as poisonous.". But intoxicants are poisonous, because toxin is poison and intoxicated means suffering from the effects of a poison in-the system; and so we are right in saying, when we see an individual incapable of walking, talking, or behaving in a normally rational manner by reason of having drunk beer, or wine, or whisky, that lie is suffering from alcoholic poisoning. The syllogism is simple: intoxicated is suffering from a toxin in the system, toxin taken into the system is a poison, therefore intoxicated is poisoned; or, to apply it, alcohol intoxicates, that which intoxicates is a poison, therefore alcohol is a poison—l am, etc., G.11.M.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 208, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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165MISS HUGHES' STATEMENTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 208, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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