Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-03-25
Temperance.
ADULTERATIoN OF liquors.


uor Trade -
The OLD RECEIPTS. 49, On entering the
printing flee of Mr.. Van Benthuysen, SEN,
Of Albany, now nearly thirty years since, to
make my first contract for Temperance print
ing, he handed me an order which he had that
day received. to print large number Of recipes
for making counterfeit liquors of all kinds
Brandy. Rum. Gin and Wine, by the use Of
Whistey in combination with drugs. The
man who gave the order told Mr.. Van Ben
thuysen that his price for the series was five
dollars. and that be was going West to sell
said recipes to country notwithstanding
sold out his supply before reaching Albany
from the East
FIFTEEN CENTS 4 GALLON In S3], am
acquaintance Of my own, who was engaged in
the manufacture of spurious wines. and who
in ono year sold thirty-three thousand casks.
stated to me. in substance, "that few persons
who drink wine have any conception Of what
they drink. For overy gallon of wine inn
ported from abroad, ten or more are manu-
featured at home. The avais of the frauds
committed in the adulterahon Of wine and
spirits in the city of New York alone. amount.
it is supposed, to at least three millions Of
dollars annually. A cargo of wine arrives
in New York, is at once purchased up. and
even if Fictitious, in twcnty-iour hours its
whole character is changed. To effect this.
it is cmpiicd into large watts and then mixed
with whiskey. cider, sour beer. aud drugs
Let the country merchant require ever so
great variety Of wines, they can all be sup
piled from the same source and though the
real cost is only from fifteen to twenty cents
per gallon. the same is sold from fifty cents
to five dollars. The greater part of the wines
sold in this country cost the manufacturer
only from fifteen to twenty cents per gallon.
Nor DRoP OF JuIcE,-A year or two
since, was taking a lunch in "A chop house
near Wall street, New York. when two gentle
men came in and took seats at an adjoining
table. did not know them, nor do believe
they knew me. They Immediately began to
discuss tho merits of Prohibitory Law.
One Of them remarked 1--WE should soon
have Prohibitory Law ic the public gener-
ally knew what know 81 am" said he,
''attorney to one of the largest liquor dealers
in this city One day my client took me
through his extensive establishments and gave
me the full history how he made all kinds of
Wine without drop of grape juice and also
Rum. Brandy, and Gin, from common Whis-
key"
How IT PAYs.-Another dealer came to
the Temperance Office, while the pledge only
extended 20 ardent spirits, and said to me.
you are doing more good than any man in
America. | do not sell one cask of ardent
spirits where | used to sell twenty,--here is
hundred dollars to help you on | was a
little surprised that this man should hand me
money to destroy his business but on nqui-
ny, | found he had become an extensive wine
fabricator, turning his ardent spirits into an
article he called NINE, and was realizing at
least forty thousand dollars year by this
change of business. Drugs, too, are as much
part of the strong beer of the country, as
the wine and ardent spirits Of the country
The proof in one case is as positive as in tho
other, and still how often the wine and bee,
of the country are recommended by physician,
(thoughtlessly, no doubt to the sick and
feeble.
| once called into an establishment where
the keeper was dealing out liquor to some
young men after the youth had left, asked
him if he was not aware that what he hat
dealt out to them was a fabricated drugget
liquor. EYES," was his immediate reply, ="
know all this; nothing would tempt me t,
drink the poisonous stuff, but they will hay,
it, aud if | do not sell it, others will"
How TO MAKE WHIsKgY INTO WINE
lowing statement
"A cheap Madeira is made here, by ex
tracing the oils from common whiskey an,
passing it through carbon. There are i'm
mense Establishments in this city where tn
whiskey is thus turned into wine in som
of those devoted to this branch of business
the whiskey is rolled in in the evening, bu
the wine goes out in the broad daylight, rea
DIV to defy the closest insupctiOn -
A grocer. after he had abandoned the ne
farious traffic in authorizations, assured m
that he had "oiten purchased whiskey on
day of a country merchant, and before he lei
town, sold the same whiskey back TO hin
turned into wine, at profit of from four
five hundred per cent.
Prof. Lee further states, 1.-THE trade
empty wine casks in this city, New York
with the Custom House mark and certifcat,
is immense; the same casks being replenish
ed again and again, and always accompanie
by that intallble test of genuineness, III
Custom House certificate. ] have heard of
pipe being sold for twelve dollars"
There is in the neighborhood Of Ne
York an extensive mandatory of wine cask
which are made so closely to initiate the fo
eign, as to deceive experienced dealers. III
Custom House marks are easily counterleite,
and certificates are never wanting
81 have heard, says Dr. Lee, dealers r
late instances in which extensive stores Ia
been filed with the artificial wines, and whC
merchants from the country have asked f
genuine wines, these have been sold them
such, with assurances that there could be
doubt of their purity"
THE Bitter BITTEN "A friend and chen
list purchased of the importer in New York
bottle Of what was called genuine Champaign
and found it to contain one-quarter of an Gun
of sugar Of lead.
A fabricator of Champagne wine in Ne
York, intending to give an entertainment
his friends, and not wishing to trea, them
his own fabrications, ordered from the impo
tiers, as he supposed, the pure article. VIII,
the corks began to fly at the repast, one dro
ped near him to his establishment he foul
il had his own mark upon it,
The importer had, through an agent su
piled himself with this fabricated article, an
by forged labels, had sold it back to the fla
ricator as pure imported. Thus was the bit
bitten.
DRINKING AMONG YOUNG MEN
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