The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-05-01
From the American Temperance Tai,
ARvIriVItLIIQI0Es.

to license men Tor the sale oil lntOXl-
eating liquors, and had they never
known the nature or effect Of those
liquors upon the human system, they
would be very likely to inquire what
the articles were which were to be
free y and extensively vended in all
their cities, towns, and villages, and
how far the sale, under public au-
thority, was to be for the public
good.-And should they be told that
in short time they would strip 30,
900 families Of all their means OF
comfortable subsistence and cast
them upon public charity; convert
half million of promising youths
into miserable, shttleSs, IMPROVE
dent, vile, loathsome beings; ex-
cite hundreds and thousands to the
most horrid crimes; fill up mad
houses with raying maniacs make
men curse and swear, and tlout at
God, heaven and hell, and cause
them to die as outcaStS from all that
consoles poor perishing humanity,
would they not say at once, Gentle
men, We can grant no such licenses
licenses to kill, to murder, to rob
men of reason, life, and soul: we
want no such misery in this happy
land And were the applicants to
say, 'Peoplc of the United States,
we propose, if YOU will grant us IL
censes, not only to bring upon You
all this evil, to enrich ourselves and
families, but, in as much as by Ger
tain occult processes we can get
more gain, we also propose to make
an almost entire change in the ma
ture Of these articles. The result
will be double the amount of the de-
Struction of human health, and life
and happiness, but it will vastly in
crease the profits Of our business.
For example. We wish for license
to sell rum, whisky, wines, ales,
porter, beer, cordials: Now, by re-
ducing these by water, and adding
thcrcunto certain mineral acids, oil
of vitriol, blue yitriol, oil of turpen-
tine and Of juniper yirginiana, acct
ate Of lead, salts Of tartar, and other
poisons, we can sell to appearance
the same articles we can say in
our advertisements they are all pure,
genuine, of the best quality not
one IN thousand will be able to de-
tect the lmpoSltion.--Nc know that
the effects on those who drink will
often be terrible they will be al-
hIcled with the most dreadful gripcs,
and irIShtlnl mania they will eX-
clam, as did one Of our customers,
- throw me into the fire, it is cold
compared with thc fire within me:
place me in Pn!lcyS and tear me
aSnndcr, 1t Will be gentle to the tugs
and drawings | endure" but we
can make more money by it: please
grant us thc llccnSe.'-Would they
do ~ We think not.
We are able to prove that there
Is no business IN the community, IL
censed or unlicensed, in which there
is 50 much dishonesty, fraud, vile
and abomnabIe imposition practiSed
DAILY, to the dctrimcnt o! the people,
as there is in the liquor business,
we DO not affirm that one half Of the .
me who apply for license or obtain
license practise fraud, or know what
they sell; butitis known what those
frauds are-what the vile adultcra-
ton and fabrication of liquors is
and 1t ought to be known by every
man who drinks, and every man who /
IS called upon to vote for license,
one OF the greatest distlllerS of New
York has affirmed that, in the height .
oil prosperity, French chemist
came INTO his dlstillery and told Him
now, by the use of certain poisons,
ne could manufacture from his whis- /
Ky every KIND OF wine sold in the .
marEet' looked, said the diStlllcr,
at his proposal. | saw could at
once make an immense fortune, but, /
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