Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-06-05
Cheat in Liquors.

can be sold at almost any price 20
please to name. Reason why? Brandy
Gin, and Wines, so called, are, manu-
featured, all over the country, in almos
every village where they are Sold
They are made out of cheap KIM
of liquor, whiskey, for example, reduced
with water, colored, and smell and favo
made according to order. This cheating
process is carried on to an enormous ex
tent. Indeed, we are informed tina
thousands of gallons of these cheap
adulterated, poisonous, villanious COM
pounds are manufactured in Montpelier
Rutland, Braltleboro, and other towns
in this State. They can be, and som,
Of them are sold much cheaper than any
pure liquors can be afforded, and ever
some temperance men will buy them fol-
medicine because they can get them al
lower price.
Judge Chase, the Commissioner oil
Washington County, during the last two
years, took pains to secure pure liquors,
for the town Agents in the County, by
having them analysed. We think there
has been but little reason to find fault
with the liquors furnished by Messrs.
Bird & Co. of New York. Chas. Back
man & Co. who are furnishing the Agents
in this County will, no doubt, send pure,
good liquors. They are to be analysed,
and thoroughly tested by a competent
chemist. Still people buy poor arti-
Gle of alcohol, in preference to a good
one, if they can get It ten cents cheaper
on gallon. They will purchase adul-
terated, poisoned liquors, in preference
to the pure article, if they can get it at
a less price; and there are a plenty of
enemies Of temperance, who are ready
to cry out, when they taste spirits
that, they are told, were purchased at the
town agency, %, that is very bad liquor.
They've got some brandy or gin, rum
or whiskey,- as the case may beat
some dealer who is selling
in violation of the law OF the State
that is first rate, and it comes much
cheaper too
There are plenty of travelling agents
all over the State, who are selling occa-
sionally good liquors-but, generally, the
vilest compounds that ever saw the sun.
And when people will patronize these
illegal sellers, and buy stuff that is
but a noxious compound, in preference
o liquor that has been tested and found
o be pure, simply because it is cheaper
in price, what encouragement is there
to try to furnish them pure liquors? They
will denounce the Town Agents, declare
that their liquors are bad, and praise upI
the illegal dealers.
If the people and the Town Agents
would let these travelling liquor Agents
alone and have nothing to do with them,
md purchase only those liquors sold by
egal agents-!quors that have been test
would then escape the evils of
duIterated, poisoned spirits.
1t is well known that almost all kinds ,
f liquors are much higher in prices
han they have been; bat how easy it is 2
Or these liquor dealers to add third or
ven half barrel of water to a barrel of r
ecent proof spirits, and pretend to sell I
t a reasonable price, when the fact is q
e cheats his customers in a rascally man q
er, by not giving them an equivalent in I
alue for their money! e
Recently, we knew a good-hearted p
ian in this region, who died in middle Il
fe, Of deliriuns tremens, or rather by ID
mixing poisonous liquor? That man n
armed to drink in this place. He kept IA
tavern in one of the back towns of the to
Ounty, and might have done well, if "
had let drinking alone but that was m
s ruin. He was naturally a clever in
an. He had an invalid wife and ce
ildren. Now he is gone, and has 70
t his family poor and helpless Who
n have any patience with such ag- of
awaited cases. But, the illegal Rum. al
lers chuckle and laugh over them. tr,
icy have got the mans money, that be
wife and children now ought to have an
he in his grave, and his wife and A
ldren are paupers They cheated him col
of his all, and have taken the bread wi
of the mouths Of the widow and the sid
herless ! And yet the community die
lie on the illegal rumdealers, and fur
odsuckers, who live and grow rich
ldleness by being accessory TO the da.
of others, on the plea, that, if they
not sell it to them, somebody else Or
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