The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-08-20
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frequently made of rotten corn; and,
also, that it is often damaged while
going through the process Of distilla-
ton. An extensive distiller admitted,
a few days since, that he had used
corn so rotten that the hogs would not
consume the slop." Cincinnati Ga
setle.
Oh, whata grievous wrong Real
| llysomethiug ought to be done to pre-
vent this most censurable crime -
Make whisky out of rotten eornl It
cannot be that our enterprising and
honorable fellow citizens, the manu-
facturers of that glorious beverage,
whisky, use rotten, decayed, sinking
corn, that a hog would turn away from
with bathing Incredible as it may
appear, it is even so-we have not
merely the authority Of the Gazette
for the truth of the assertion, but we
have It also personally from a respec-
table distilIer.
II this was the only villainous act
tof those connected with this "exten-
slve trade," we would not complain /;
but really we regard it as the most
excusable and least Objectionable thing
they do.
Rotten corn is good for nothing else; i;
it can not be used for food, for either
man or beast, and if men will have
poison, let it be made out of that
which is worthless. 1t is far more
criminal to convert wholesome and
nutritious grain into this vile stuff
Besides, the best of corn must under
go a rOtting process before the liquor
is obtained-they can not get drop
of the ardent from any kind of grain
until it is converted into sinking,
purifying mass. But the Gazette says
the whisky is musty." Generally,
we think, it is the practice to I" doc
tor " and drug this inferior article, and
make it into brandy and sparkling
champagne, for the aristocracy, who
arc above drinking such common, vul-
gar stuff as whisky. Spirits of nitre,
potash, oil of vitrol, lime, &C., &C.,
are used for the purpose of remodel
ing chliquorS. Sometimes the mus
tiness and bad taste are produced by
the cask. In the Wine and Spirit
Merchants Companion, page 144, we
find the following recipe to sweetea
casks " Boil fresh cow-dung and soak
the casks with it," We find, also, in an
old work, "The acid used in the pre-
paration of counterfeit brandy, is aqua
fortiS." "When combined with rec
tilted spirits, it raises a flavor and taste
much resembling brandy.
The distillers not only rot the corn
and use that already rotted to their
hand, but when they have got out the
" man poison" they take the filthy re-
fuse dregs, and fatten, or rather bloat
hogs for the market. The miserable
diseased meat taken to the slaughter
houses from the slop-pens, is distribu-
ted among the people, to poison those
who do not drink the whisky. Then,
as if fearing that all will not get their
full share, they supply the dairies with
the slops, and diseased milk is obtain
ed in large quantities, for the children.
Cholera infantum, scrofula, liver COM
plant, &C., &c, are very often the
result of this branch of the vile bust
ness. Every body must know, that
ever saw a hog or COW, which had
been fed on this slop, that they were
a mass of putrefaction. Yet the sau
sage market of Cincinnati is supplied |
with the one, and more than half the
families in the city are fed with the
other. Aside from all the pauperism,
crime, disease, moral death, misery
and wretehedness, produced by the
of liquor, this business
is the vilest of any other on earth.-I
Other crimes whiten into innocence,