Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-02
POISONED LIQUORS.

ptW Muyu~tNeJ IdhoS no W lhoh lOI pun
fishing the advertisement of "Lacour's
Essential Oils" for making any desired
liquor out of corn whisky. He thinks il
inconsistent with our professions Of tenn
perance.
Taking the very worst view of the case,
namely, that our only object is to make
money, we might easily justify our con.
duct; for, according to the rules of hon
orabe warfare, it is always justifable to
quarter on the enemy, whenever an oppor-
tunity is afforded. By this means, you
strengthen your own, and weaken your
adversary's resources. In fact, it is fire.
quently more expensive to feed an enemy
than to fight one.
But we do not rest on this argument
alone We are opposed to the use of al
coholic stimulants altogether, believing
them to be poisonous, and fearfully de-
structive of life, and every thing that can
make life desirable, and we shall endeavor
to show that by encouraging the use of
these oils, and giving publicity to their
wonderful properties and effects, we shall
greatly promote temperance.
1. One great objection to intemperance
is its fearful expense. Millions upon mil
lions of dollars are sent to foreign lands,
impoverishing our country, to purchase
costly foreign liquors. By the use of
these oils, our own domestic corn whisky
can be converted into stuff which tastes so
much like these foreign wines and bran
dies that the best judges cannot tell the
difference. Now, when we consider that
the only inducement any man can have to
engage in the traffic is to make money, and
that they care not what amount of misery
is wrought upon their neighbors, it be-
comes evident that when they can manu-
facture an article which the best .;udges
cannot detect for Jyty cents gallon, they
will not send to foreign lands and pay from
four to eight dollars gallon for similar
article. The man who would expect any
such thing of them, deserves to be tapped
for the s'naples. Hence, by this invention,
millions of dollars will be retained in this
country, which otherwise would be sent
abroad for foreign liquors.
9. Another and far greater evil of the
traffic is, that it fills our land with thou
sands upon thousands of poor, miserable,
degraded, diseased, filthy, wretched be-
ingS, who drag out a long and loathsome
existence, and finally rot to death in our
jails and poor-houses, or in some wretched
hovel into which they have dragged an in
nocent and suffering family. The work
of destruction is SO painfully slow, that
before they sink into the grave they must
not only suffer the loss of every comfort
and blessing of this life, and their hopes
for the future, but they must bring DESC
ation to the hearthstone, ruin, disgrace,
and untold suffering upon all connected
with them. THE poison IS too Slow. How
much better for community, upon which
such wretches are always burden-how
much better for their families, TO whom
they bring nothing but want, abuse, and
bitter grief-how much better for coming
generations, who will be called to suffer
rom diseases caused by the intemperance
If parents-how much better for the
1runkards themselves, whose rotten car
,ases and idiotic minds render life a bur-
1en--we say, how much better for all |
concerned that these men who are deter
mined to die drunkards, should be put out
If the way as soon as convenient, by their
chosen instrumentality. If man is de-
ermined to commit suicide, let him do it
1t once, instead of dying by slow torture.
When we read the history of the Spanish
-nquisition, the immediate slaughter of
thousand human beings creates less terror
n our mind, than the death of one poor
wretch by sloso torture, and yet no torture
vas ever invented by the foul fiend him
elf equal to that of living confirmed
lrunkard. If, therefore, men are permit
ed to murder their fellows,
'"Tis well 'twere done quickly" m
The question arises, Are liquors made
y these oils more poisonous than the pure
rticle? In the absence of all direct proof
eason and common sense teaches that
uch wonderful changes could not be pro-
luced upon whisky without the aid of the
most highly concentrated poiSons. But if
lirect proof is wanted, take the following,
rom the Toronto Colonist:
cat about II O'Clock on Thursday
norning, clerk in the employ of Mr.,
Wright, liquor manufacturer at Brampton,
eft the store for the purpose of manufac-
uring brandy from raw spirits. He took
nth him preparation used for that pur-
ose, by some called essence of wine, and
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