Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-11-29


stated to him that in order to be sure he !
was drinking pure liquor and not mixture
of pois"ns. he would require Chemist
with his laboratory constantly in attend
ance. After giving him great variety OF
facts on the subject, he replied: Il can
not credit ,chat yo0 sag; you hare been de- !
cecpedus; things could no. eristc so long |
'oihom exposure. If true or even hafI
true, those liquor forgers deserve the State |
Prison ten times more than he who writes
another man name, without his knowl
edge, on the back of note, for the pur-
pose of raising money thereon. Here is
Mr. sitting beside us, he Is an exten-
sive importer of wine, let US appeal to him.
is what Mr.. Delaven relates, true -
Yes. replied our fellow passenger. all
that he says il true. ; Mr.. De!avan adds
And here let me remark that while the
temperance press. as well as the religious
and political, have tcemed with these
charges against the liquor trade, to my
knowledge there has not yet appeared the
first denial.
ln Gieat Britain, the practices of liquor
dealers in druggng their liquors has been
investigated by the government and
great mass of testimony brought before
Parliament. On the premises of one deal
er over 5000 pounds of drugs to be used
IN making wine. were found.
President Mott, in one of his admirable
lectures says:- had friend who had
himself been a wine dealer, and having
read the startling statements, some time
since made public, in relation to the brew
! ing of wines, and the aaulteration of liq
uors generally, inquired of that friend as
to the ruth. His reply was:-
God J3tgire schat has passed IN my oocn
ccilar. but the Statemeats are all rue. alt
true, assure yon,
Another fact. A city wine dealer died
His executors in examining his papers
found an inventory Of the articles, he had
used in making wine, amounting to thou.
sands OF dollars, but tn ere was not one dol
lar for the juice of the grape.
In the same city a house that dealt in
wines. failed, and made an assignment of
their stock. The as8ignees found evidence
Of the purchase during the proceeding year
of hundreds of barrels of cider, but not "A
single cask of wine. Aud yet they We're
,ciae dealers, buying cider and selling it as
wine. Hundreds of such examples might
be given.
We have an abundance of medical tes-
timony, especially from our older and
more eminent physicians. that the effect
of using intoxicating liquors me- is much
more fatal to health and life, than 40 OF 80
Years since Then liquors were compare
tiycly pure. The alcohol in them was un-
usually the only ingredient that the consti-
tuition had 10 contend with. Then the
habitunl drunkard, If he lived so long. fre
vuently did not become n kaotrn drunkard
under twenty years. Now it is generally
the case that the same amount of hab-
itual drinking produces disease, and il
three years, From this it appears that
the liquors of the present day are near
" seven times as deeterious and fatal
as those of fifty years ago. This DIFF
fercace is due to the presence of Other
poisons than the poison of alcohol in tat
Intoxicating liquors used by the people i'll
such quantities.
Arsenic Is used to give the bead to lq
uors, sulphuric acid to make them fiery
logwood + coloring, sugar of lead, stricli
nine, and long list of other deleterous
aud poisonous articles to impart other
qualities.
We have also the most positive proof
that the filtlicst dirtiest, nastiest eater ii
used in mailing. brewing and manulac-
turing liquors. The writer of this arti
Gle has beeu assured by shipmasters, that
it is a common thing on the arrival at New
York, of vessel from the West Indies
with sugar and molasses, for her Jilge aca-
ter to be bought, pumped out, harrelled up
aud taken ashore to be used in distillation
The Rev. T. p Hunt, of Wyoming
Penn, gives the following Illustration ol
the filthy practices of liquor manufacture
era. lie says:-
While he was lecturing in Philadelphia,
became acquainted with a man who was
extensively cngagedin masking wines, bran
dy, etc Through my influence he aban-
donel the horrid traffic. lie informed me-
that in order to produce the nutty .faror,
for which Madeira was SO much admired
he put has Of CoCKRoACHEs into the
liquor, and let it remain there until the
C0ckroaehes was dissolved. | have been
informed by several that this is no uncom
mon practice. Ii any wine drinker doubt,
it, he can soon settle the question by al
experiment. Cockroachcs are plenty ii
the Middle and Southern States, especially
at the hotels. These and many other sab
stances much more nauseous and poison
Gus are known to be employed by the ma
l,crs and venders of Intoxicating drinks.
Bat enough has been given tn show how
vile, filthy, and deleterious are the com
pounds prepared for the poor inebriate.-
Alcohol itself is sufficiently dcleterious
but its power to destroy. is now increased
seven fold, by the addition of other dc
structiyc agents whose name is legion.