American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-04
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his unused knees when lie would walk
away from his desk. Richard Golden,
strained TO the utmost limit of his endur-
ance during the Corn Law struggle in
Parliament, said: THE more work have
| to do the more | have resorted to the
pump and teapot" Tom Savers says:
WI hen have work to do, there is moth
| ing like water and the dumb bells" The
sharp trainer, fitting his human beast for
the prize ring, takes him away from his
cups and gives him only water to drink
| The evidence is all on one side. The
man who would endure cold must not
| touch alcohol Wonder, in the extreme
North, the beverage is whale oil. Rus
! sian soldiers starting on winter march
are refused the rations of liquor. Before
starting they are drawn up in line and the
corporals smell of every mans breath.
Those tainted with liquor are sent back
to their quarters. Experience shows that
they freeze first.
These Illustrations might be multiplied
indefinitely. Instead of. increasing en-
durance. the use of alcohol diminishes it,
and prepares victims for every disease
and epidemic The mortality of drunk
ards from twenty-one to thirty, is five
times as great as of temJerat men. From
thirty-one to fifty, it is four times greater.
At the age of twenty-one the average ex-
pectaHcy oI lie, IS Iorty-Iour years, OF
drunkards. fifteen years and half. On
the whole, from fifteen to ninety years,
drunkards average only one-third as much
as other men. Sots live four years.
Slaves live seven years in the rice swamps.
The great London fever in 1879, took
scarcely anybody but drunkards and tip
piers. DR.. Cartwright, of New Orleans,
five thousand drinking men before it
touched a sober man.
In the United Kingdom one visit of
cholera took away over ten thousand per-
sons--not one teet0tdler in all the number.
In Montreal it took only one, while fifteen
hundred drinkers died. These are the
facts concerning the preparation that
strong drink gives to endure or resist dis
ease. These are Gods arguments, Gods
testimony in this trial.
THE UNADULTERATED ARTICLE.
Alcohol, when pure, is an enemy to the
system, is not digested, does not nourish,
only lntrudes, wages war, and is cast out
as public foe, or remaining, vanquiShes
its victim. If all this is done in the
green tree what will be done in the dry
Ii alcohol in its true character is so ruin
Gus, what must be its counterfeits In
touching upon this we enter into field
of crime and debauchery, and malignity
that beggars all description. 1t puts the
very devil to the blush. Alcohol not bad
enough He'll heated seven-fold hotter
than its wont /! Think of tiff you can
conceive it-what bottomless depths must
be sounded to find the wretch, the assas-
sin, the loathsome monster to adulterate
liquor But such creatures are the pro-
duct of bad liquor. 1t is reached by de-
scending flights. 1t is farther from the
mothers knee to intoxication than it is
the rest of the way. That point is more
than half way to hell.
But let us look at the adulteration work.
Counterfeits are not modern. Homer
speaks of them in Greece, nine centuries
before Christ. The Hebrews practiced
adulteration long before the days of
Solomon. England legislated against it
in the Fourteenth Century, during the
reign of Edward III. 1t is crime that
must have grown for centuries to reach
it's present colossal stature. See what is
required of strong drink, then substitutes
can be easily found. 1t must irritate the
membranes of the body, benumb sensa-
ton, dim the vision and produce dizzi-
ness and stupefaction. The chief poisons
used, are strychnine, stramonium, bella |
donna, cocculus and opium. These do
the work. One bushel of the best corn
will only make three gallons of whisky. |
But little strychnine easily raises the
average to four. Twenty-Five per cent |
of pure alcoholic strength is strychnine
three or four cents worth adds this ex-
ira gallon. One drug house in London
sold in 1867, more strychnine to one liquor |
house than all the city could use medi- |
cinaliy. Stramonium is made from the |
weed. 1t is very common.
1t may cramp the stomach. This |
is corrected by opium. The taste |
of that is killed by potash.
1t produces dizziness, dimness of vision
and delirium. Belladonna is deadly |
all poisonous, roots, leaves,
stalk and all Its symptoms are, intoxi
cation, violent gestures, laughter, follow
ed by stupidity. 1t is cheap, only two
in evil: A distiller adds one-fourth by
strychnine. That strychnine gallon is
sold to a wholesaler. He makes two of it
by adding three cents worth of stramo-
mum and opium. The retailer doubles it
into four gallons by adding belladOnna.
This decoction sells for ten cents glass.
And this is the practice all over the land!
DR.. Cox, the celebrated chemist, was APP
pointed inspector for Cincinnati by the
Legislature of Ohio, in 1865, and in two
years inspection he found more than
ninety nine per cent. of the liquors adul-
terated by the vilest pOisons.
Let me enumerate some of the stuffs
used everywhere. Receipts for counter
letting are in common use among manu-
lecturers and wholesale men. They are
well known to the trade.
Here are some ingredients for giving
he right heat and fire to the liquors
Pepper, capsicum, cloves, ginger, spice,
vinegar, acetic acid, tartaric acid, citric
acid, butyric acid, cream of tartar, nitric
acid or aquafOrtis, sulphuric acid, prussic
icid, sulphuric ether, nitric ether, spirits
Of nitre, oil of vitriol, oil of turpentine,
extract of Japonica, juniper berries,
lloes, cochineal, black ants, and Spanish
uice.
Here are some ingredients used to give
aste and astringency: Bruised raisins,
orange peel, coriander seed, white oak
bark, fannie acid, kino, rhatany, catechu,
alum, copperas, sulphate of
IRON and sulphate of copper.
Unnatural tastes are corrected by lime
water, caustic, potash, sugar of lead and
itharge.
The right or desired color is secured by
using burnt sugar, beet juice, treacle,
red saunders-wood, logwood and sui
phuric acid. This is the stuff you are
aking when you venture to take
Tram"
Who can comprehend the extent of
his crime A farmer adds little
sand to his timothy seed, and cheats the
He Injuries no ones health, but he is
q sent up for ten years. a poor woman
puts lard in her butter and makes four
.ents by the fraud. No ones health is
but she goes over to the Bride
we'll for her shrcwdness. What shall be
lone to the villains, murderers who
poison theirfelIows by the million2
Four houses IN New York, in 1866,
palmed off over 1000, 900 gallons of the