Abstract
THE Royal Commission on Whiskey and other Potable Spirits, the final report of which has just been issued, originated out of the attempts made by various local authorities to obtain legal decisions as to what should or should not constitute brandy and whiskey. In the case of the other recognised forms of ordinary potable spirits, no acute differences of opinion appear to have arisen. When a man asked for rum or gin the legal mind representing the man in the street was content to assume that that long-suffering individual received an article of the nature, substance, and quality he demanded. As a matter of fact, the man in the street raised no difficulty even about the two forms of potable spirits which have more particularly engaged the prolonged attention of the Royal Commission. He had absolutely no interest in the touching solicitude which was displayed on his behalf by a number of professional gentlemen, who, apparently from purely altruistic motives, were determined that he should be awakened to a proper sense of the importance of knowing the origin and mode of manufacture of articles which he had hitherto been perfectly content to purchase because he was satisfied with their quality and price.
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T. The Whiskey Commission . Nature 81, 308–309 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081308a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/081308a0