The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-17


scented toavoricious minds-And the re-
suit is before us to-day. , .., a..-
Prof Lee of New York says there are
immense establishments in that CITY
where common whisky is turned into
wine. "A grocer who has abandoned the
nefarlous trafic assured him that he had
often purchased whisky ola country mer
chant one day and before the merchant
left town had sold the same whisky back
las wine at profit of from 400 to 500 per
cent.-The articles chiefly used in making
our foreign wines are "Oil of vitrol, alum,
Itartaric acid, logwood, burnt sugar, beet
root juice, bitter almonds, white lead, end
elder berries Dr.. Mott (now passed
Iaway) stated upon the best authority that
there were but 10000 barrels of wine an
Inually produced in the island Of Madeira
and yet after supplying the continent Of
Europe with unknown thousands, $4,000
barrels Of what is known as Madeira wine
is annually sold in this country. The dis
trict in which Champagne is produced
makes 800,000 baskets $50, 900 are known
to go to Europe-yet-ove one million
baskets are annually sold in this country.
While upon this point permit me to go
step farther upon this adulteration OF
liquors. DR.. Cox al eminent chemist
and Ohio liquor inspector states II have
qualities fresh from the custom house
with inspectors certificates and have been
assured that they were freshly Imported,
but the chemical tests gave me corn
whisky and fusil oil as basis, with sui
phuric acid, nitric ether, prussic acid,
copper Chloroform, guinea pepper and
tamin, with sometimes small per cent.
of brandy, and sometimes not drop
In the manufacture of beer alum and
copperas to make the head of foam, aloes
Quassia, cocculus indicus, NORWOOD, and
tobacco to take the place of hops, saltpeter,
jalep, sulphate of lime and nutgalls to
prevent aci lily, while adding the oil Of
vitriol gives it the appearance Of age.
A quantity of whisky was seized not
long since at Newton Mass, and the for
mula by which it was made was as follows,
which was found upon the person of the
unfortunate dealer and which analy sis
verified, 40 gallons kerosene, pounds
potash, OF strychnine1 mixed with soft
water, and if you want gin add oil of
Juniper the. only wonderls not that
men soon have tremcns but that they
don't drop dead before going 10 rods.
! We raise shis question of wine drinking
now, because it is known that some good
Temperance men both East and West,
some even in this city, believe in substi-
tuting wines for stronger drink as the
best means of saving the people.
An Ex-Governor of Massachusetts has
written pamphlet. for which he received
$40 600 from the Biquor ring in which
he says that all people who have ever
arisen to any degree of civilization have
been drinking people, have invented some
kind of intoxicating drinks. Here he as
sumes the value of stimulus as civilizer.
This reminds us of the argument OF the
Old lady who said that the Presidency of
jackson was public calamity because
soon after his Inauguration molssses ad
Yanced in price. All nations who
have arisen to civilization have had
arge cities and in them there have
been great sins, brothels, thieves, hence
they are necessary to civilization. Some
with more show of reason have supposed
that stimulus was necessary to meet the
sudden changes of our climate that peo-
pie could stand the severity of cold bet
ter. Experience proves otherwise. Wben
some northern expedition is to be made
in winter by Russian Soldiers, all are re-
iected from the ranks whose breath smells
of liquor, as they cannot stand the cold.
Kane found in his expedition to the Arctic
seas that men who drank could not stand
the cold and he forbade it. Give q man
stimulus,and while you quicken his pulse,
if you put q thermometer under his tongue
you will find the temperature lower than
before. Wine is a stimulus and so is the
prick of pin, but it does not defend US
from the severity of climatic changes.
There arc three questions of vital i'm
! nnrta nee to l1s WHO lay -the fnnnda tinns Of