The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-26
From the B ngor Ie) Democrat
ADULTERATED LIQUORS.

eng. From the B nsor Ie) Democrat.
ADULTERATED LIQUORS.
Dr.. Lewis Feuchtwanger in notice to
liquor dealers in the St. Louis Leader,
advertising his Flavorings says:
The FIavorings are put up in pack
ages Of 8. 10. and 40 gallons, and re-
quire but the additions of pure spirit,
either lst or 4th proof, and liquors such
as cognac. either dark or pale Holland
and English Gin, Jamaica and St. Croix
Rum. Monongahela, Bourbon. Irish and
Scotch Whisky, Apple, Peach, Cherry
and Raspberry Brandy, Port and Ma
deira Wines will be instantly produced.
1t requires no skill, but an addition of a
good spirit. say 50 gallons to one gallon
Of the respective flavoring.
"The best cogniac oil, green, yellow
and white, warranted genuine, as low
as any other importer in the United
States.
Raw whisky may by Dr.. F.'s age
and body preparation be made smooth
with but trifing cost"
This is as good temperance lecture
as we have seen for years. Think of
paying six dollars for gallon of slow
poison under the name of cogniac, put
up in bottle with French labels The
in reduction Of arsenic into Ohio whisky
has become SO common that the lesisla.
ture Of Ohio has passed law inflicting
a severe penalty on the makers Of adul-
terated liquors. Whisky has become a
popular drink among drinkers, for its
suppos d purity.
We are prohibi,ionists 50 far as the
manufacture, sale and use of aolultsrated
liquors are concerned. Such beverages
are as injurious to health and perilous TO
life as diseased flesh and decayed fish,
and we should like to see them proscrib-
ed by public sentiment and legal enact
ment.
Legislation for the protection of the
public against the evils Of intemperance,
would in our judgment be vastly more
effectual if directed against the manu-
facture and sale of the impure beverages
than in attempting to prohibit the use of
the genuine articles. We 10 not be-
lieve that suppression is practicable, as
in all ages and countries stimulating
drinks have been used SO they will con-
tiuue to be, and the best that can be done
is 70 prevent abuses and to protect the
public against impositious. Intemper-
ance is the leas, where pure liquors are
consumed. 1t is the impure that chief
ly possess the property, that does the
mischief, tho influence that steals away
the senses, when individuals and society
are injured. In wine countries where
real wine and pure brandy made from
the grape are only used, inebriation and
crime resulting from it are rare. In
this country before adulteration was
commenced. people drank ardent spirits
freely and lived TO good old age not
wi,hs anding, and drinkers were &C
counted As moral as those who abstain
ed, if there were any such persons two
OF, three generations ago.
If the evil of intemperanco is not
wholly caused by alulterated liquors it
is enormously aggravated by them
The practice of adulteration and medi-
cation has become SO general that is now
Amos. impossible to obtain pure articles
in the market. This practice ought to
be entirely broken up by public opinion
backed up by law with penalties suitable
to Tho offence.
We have inspectors Of beef, pork, fish
and other articles Of consump ion, and
laws to punish those who for gain attempt
to palm off upon purchasers and consu-
mers damaged AMI deleterious articles
of food. Why not have inspectors of
spurious liquors aud laws with penalties
to punish those who from sinister mo-
tives put into the market damaged or
adulterated articles of drink? !? 1t is as
much fraud and crime to do one as the
other. and why should not the offenders
in both cases be treated alike?
We verlly believe that to suppress
the manufacture and sale of adulterated
liquors would greatly advance the cau>e
Of temperance and good morals, and
that the public would receive more bene-
fit from it than from all the attempt that
have been or can be made to prohibit
the manufacture, sale and use of spirit
Gus liquors. There is wide difference
between aiming to suppress and exter-
inmate adulterated articles, and to pun
ish those who manufacture and vend
them. and in endeavoring to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of pure articles
of this kind. good in themselves aud
bad only when used improperly or to
excess. Almost everybody uses in some
form moro or less spurious liquors, and
all desire them to be good almost the
entire people therefore can be arrayed
against authorizations, while there must
be great majority Of them assainsttpro