The New York herald., 1869-01-18
LIQUOR AoUl TeaArlnSs AND the YARNS or THE IGNORANT
Bone MANS
from the sunday Mercury. Jan.

(From the Sunday Mercury, Jan. I'LL
Some OF the unfortunate B0hemlans OF tins city
whose financial resources never enabled them to in
duge In good dram Of liquor have, with she ef-
can't on the Suasy Of stimuIsnts. These wandcr a.
ing heroes OF impecunioslty recently visited some
first class hotels and saloons for the first time
permitted to take "smilesn OF excellent brandy
Bourbon, gin and other liquors.; but they found,
terIay different FROM that sold at their fayorite
haunts, where they could become intoxicated by
three drinks at the aggregate cost OF ninepence
Some OF these individuals found the taste or good
liquor SO novel-we might say unique, 'ar ns they
were concerned-that they imagined there was
ricnce in the low dram shops tan it reached the ears
OF the leading fanatics cf temperance. who at once
employed them TO continue their visits TO reputable
establishments, because they secured the largest
amount OF patronage. This was n godsend to the
Bohcmians. who obtained samples OF excellent
liquor, and then secured the services OF learned
professor, who certified that the samples contained
fus oil, tannin and burned sugar-e fact welIknown
throughout the world. Almost every schoo,boy Is
aware that fusl oil Is one OF the elementary ngre.
dients OF wniskey, beng derived from the substance
OF which 1t IL composed and that tannin Is found
IN all new liquor. Neither OF these are injurious
when used In due proportion IN distilled spirits; but
whiskev without f1sil OIL Ia positively poisonous.
The beneficial G efect Of wnssey rs from which fasil OIL
In cases OF consumption and often results IN the
covery OF the patient. The Bonemians and their
new allies, the temperance men, have thus du-
covered an extensive mares nest. II we required
any further proof OF their Ignorance on the subject
Of good llguo, u = presented N lneir rspor. that
OF the Sixth ward, where gs OF Bourbon can be
purchased for half a dime, sold good whiskey,
because they found that 1t was made from pure
spirlts and did not contain fusi OIL All the
fusll oil was extracted by the dstiIler from this
whiskey and they were thus enabled TO sell at
o nominal price, and TO rejoice the heart OF the
Bohemans who delivered eulogics the e.
adjustments. Tue attack on the houses where
whiskey OF the description set forth bv these ignor-
ant investigators s sold Ia among judges Of the arti
Gle and oil acquainted with the materials OF winch Il
~ composed, the best advertisement they could re-
ccve: but the raid such houses In the less
prehenslble. New York imports moro good liquor and
sells and uses more excellent whlskey than nearly
any city In the world and no one VIII believe that
our wealthy citizens who are lavish In their expen-
dftures on necessities and Injuries, would tolerate
poor or poisonous brandy, gin or Bourbon. The stun
about fusi oil can be easily realized when II known
that corn bread, which In admittedly wholesome,
contains proportIonatcly more OF II than any wnskey
or other distilled spirits Let then no citizen who
mas aregard for hts life, or his stomach, purchas,
so-caed whiskey without the wholesome materials
when these ignorant liohemians have pronounced
poisonous In order to aid the Of ne temperance
fanatics In their present state OF desperation.