Show POINTS OF LOGIC SINGE both and broad bread are the products of fermen fermentation ta tion says kate field they should stand on an equal tooting footing before the law if it is wrong she declares to ser seh a bottle of wine it is also wrong to sell the forty for ty two pounds of bread that contain the same quantity of alcohol miss field evidently wanted to be logical for once but her burning de sire to be smart got the start of tier lier better impulses as usual in the first place bread is not a product of fermentation any more than valuable womanhood is the product or possible companion of dishonesty or truth the product of cunning and evasive argument bread that is 18 worth having is them the product of honest flour manipulated by a competent bread maker not for the sake of some intoxicating quality it may have but for its quality to satisfy hunger and sustain life the skill of this noble artisan is sometimes aided by fermentation and sometimes it is not according to his style of bakery the insignificant amount of alcohol that might be generated in the process to is an accident and not an essential of the product and in no wise characterizes or effects ts to quality wine on the contrary is a product of fermentation invented land and manufactured th ot for its intoxicating qualities A cohol is therefore not only an essential but a principle ingredient of its composition and characterizes the quality of the product almost absolutely take the alcohol from the bread that happens by accident to contain it and the consumer would not recognize the change take the alcohol from toe the wine and it would be utterly worth less moreover both being the product of fermentation would not make them of necessity the same or almair in any essential quality vinegar is the product of fermentation oft oas an and d tar are two of the numerous pit products of bituminous coal subject to afo lation til but gas is not tar nor noraa anything like it we might also add that the editor of rate kate fields plead Is washington andars and Mrs cleveland are products of the same process of creati creation but cleveland is no not t kate fiela nor any more like tier her than bread to is like wine to endeavor to so distort the terms and process processes es of logic to as to make things totally opposed in essential qualities appear to be in the same or in allied categories is a perversion of leaion reason and a prostitution of argument logic is simply the obedient exponent or vehicle of df truth of its entire processes truth is both the beginning and end A single falsehood fale fal hood expressed or inferred smuggled into its preview prem premi laeK ew mak makes es of the whole a co counterfeit u ute rf ep such tricks of perverted invention will never stand long under scrutiny |