Te Pipiwharauroa 43
No.43
No.43
1901/09/01
[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 43, Gisborne, September 1901
ALCOHOL
(by Maui Pomare MD)
(Written for Te Pipiwharauroa.)
This is one of our enemies – liquor. Although it is a bad friend to us, what is that to the Maori? He allows liquor to be a good friend to him, a chief to him. Alcohol is not a food – no-one gets drunk on food. Some people say that liquor is a strengthening food for people; that saying is a fiction, because the strength of a person’s muscles has been measured before and after drinking glasses of alcohol, and it has been found that the strength of his body has decreased after drinking alcohol, whatever he himself thinks of the strength of his body. So that thing, alcohol, speaks falsely, saying that you are strong at a time when you are not strong; and it says that you are warm at a time when you are cold.
