The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-19
sss- If the law against the adalteration

B<ss@ II the law against the adIlteratlon
of liquors were to be rigidly enforced, it is
highly probable that every liquor establish
ment in this city would be closed. The
greatest difficulty in the execution of this
law would be IN detecting the authorizations,
and in determining what should be consider
ed authorizations in opposition to what might
be set up in defense as necessary ingredients
in the manufacture We imagine II would
puzz. tne executors OF the law how to pro-
ceeu. We could not afford to send OIL Tor
such reuoW ned chemists Liebig, or even
Sllnmau oi our own country, in order TO
have the liquor analysed beyond dispute,
and NJ chemist at home would be willingly
taken as authority, or would himself be
willing to take the responsibility or incur
the odium of such analysis. But suppose
smelling and tasting committee should be
ter, where could suitable men be found p
ca course, tn city, county, and court officers
NvIIl ,dm' upon their appropriateness
sun s- to expect that the committee
wuJiu Uv made up from their number
NIthous once taking thought of the qualif-
caGtiOuS necessary in such committee OF in
sperI;ou. Their unitnesS would be painfully
alya cut when il was made known that not
AN individual now in Office had ever had the
east experience IN such examinations, either
pr, Uely or officially. Imagine such
committee of the city officers, with the sher-
if, cas- Stables, and few lawyers thrown in,
gol' Z round some morning, inspecting the
pur. Of liquors sold in Evansville. No one,
without having ever previously tasted OF
sDelt Of the article, would be competent to
juGge the quality, for how on earth could a
man who had never in his life tasted drop
of good liquor tell that which was bad p
Upon reading this question over carefully
after writing 1t, we discover how a wrong
inference might be deduced from its con.
struction. We must not be understood as
intending to convey the idea that persons
never tasted liquor because they always used
bad. Not at all we mean, of course, that
they have no experimental knowledge of
any kind, and therefore could not distin-
guiSh bad from good. How could they ever
tell one from another, who had II used
any one kind? How could they lei! bad
from good unless they had previously tasted
both2 How could they detect the presence
of deleterious drugs, unless they had expert
enced the effect of such authorizations, or
knew the taste of pure fluids? Besides, the
smell and taste would make the committee
sick before they had examined one block;
and we can imagine them passing full bot
tie from one TO another, refusing, each in
his turn, to taste single smidgun," and
taking a vote all round to resign for inca
pacity. Where then could good faster or
smell-master be found? The Legislators
who made the law are no better judges of
liquor than the officers who execute the
Laws, and even the Governor Of Indiana,
himself, who sanctioned the law, could no
more tell the difference between good and
bad liquors by his organs of taste and smell,
than a member of the Legislature, or even
a CONGRESSMAN. What will be done in order
to carry out the provisions of the law in
this particular we are unable to say. Per-
hays it would be we'll for the Governor to
al Puut commissioners 10 OBTAIN sample Of
"a. Boz. qae.- so,d uy every vendor IN the
STATE, .,..I experiment for a year OF two
with It's ei!ec,S upon the stomach, brains,
and constitution of a few criminals condemn
ed to he hung, or perhaps few subjects
might De- obtained with no more loss to So
cirtyJ fiOn the next General Assembly. An
appropriation equal to that for the use of
the present Prison Commissioners would
suffice tor the expense, and repay the State
as pTOtitably. We shall aw ait the execution
of this new liquor law with intense interest.
FS- A friend of Col. Drew has shou US
letfeT, dated at Detroit, where the Colonel
h'd Deeu j., l4ore than week, making up
Govetm- Ut supplies 10 he distributed by him
at points Mound Lake Superior, to the va
Tirs ladan -ribes. The steamer Illinois,
uDon ..lcu the Indian A. cut returns with
his sup lies, We notice, is advertised to leave
Detroit Oh grand pleasure excursion, aud
to be accompanied by an excellent brass and