Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-11-27

trouuced, as one who had given long and
careful study to the subject of intemperance
and the evil consequences Of the traffic in
and use of intoxicants.
Mr.. TAYLoR's ADDRESS.
The speaker said he was no alarmist but
he must ask, is conscience dying out of the
race? Ofthe thousand millions that people
the globe, eight hundred millions use in
toxicating beverages. We may expec:
nothing better of Heathendom but what
shall we say of professedly Christian lands,
which suffer deadly posons to be made and
sold on every corner, by unscientifc and
INSCRIPTIONS men, with results of untold
misery and crime?
The liquor gods are six in number-rum,
whiskey, brandy, gin. wine and beer; before
these millions bow, defying Heaven and
risking Hell. The trade in them involves
an outlay Of 81 500, 0O0, 600 a year-or
more than Is spent to sustain the military,
education and religion of the race.
These beverages are composed of alcohol,
water and drugs. The first of these is itself
poison. 1t Is 50 defined by the best au-
thoritIes, medical and chemical Many of
these were cited by Mr. Taylor, who de-
seribed also various experiments of ad-
ministration of alcohol to animals and
birds with Immediately fatal results
Nothing but poison will produce intoxica-
ton. and for the poison of alcohol there is
no antidote. To this poison in the manu-
fdcture of liquors, is added drug-poson
and other most nauseous and filthy sub
stances. The liquor traffic is gigantic
fraud. which should be annihlated, except
for medical and scientific purposes.
Mr. Taylor went at length into the sub
ject of the edulteratiOn of liquors The
liquor men, he SAID, have a secret literature
OF their own. gentlemen Of his quaint
ance had made a collection of books deyot-
ed to recipes for manufacturing spurious
liquors. For one oftheSe books, of but 200
pages. which cost him Sl0-a liquor dealer
had offered him Sl00-but he would not sell
it, a. it could not be replaced Mr.. lay
Tor said that he had himself six of these
books, in his library, and from them, with
the required drugs, essences and chemicals,
he could make any kind OF liquor, which
could not be told from the genuine, without
chemical analysis. In this manufacture a
hundred and fifty kinds of drugs and chemi-
Gals are used, including aquatortis, potash,
vltriOl, strYchnlne. nux yOmica, cOcculus
indicus, stramonium, prussic and nitric
acids, sugar OF lead, tobacco etc, etc
These books show how to make porter and
ale al s. to 81 a barrel, which will sell at
50 barrel; and French brandy, which
sells at profit OF two thousand per cent
They tell how to restore spoiled wines and
liquors. 1t Is known that thousands of
barrels Of spoiled cider are used IN London.
in the manufacture OF spurious wines,
which contain not drop Of grape juice.
Most ab0minable substances are added. in
some eases. 4 decoction made by stepping
cock-r0aches in hot water i added to Ma
| deira wine. TO give it a ''nutty flavor.
/ Black ants are used in ike manner IN other
! liquors. and these are put up in barrels
soaked in 5aru-yard manure. After detail
/ ei descriptions of various authorizations, Mr..
| TAYLOR recounted some Of the evidence that
/ these spurious liquors are in common use,
in this vicinity. These recipes, he said. are
/ sold and used in Rouses Point. \ man in
/ LaColle, just across The Canada line, pro-
cured some of them. and made up guam
4 tity of liquors. lie put into some, by mis-
/ take, an excessive proportion Of some OF the
] poisonous drugs. His own wife was the
! first tn drink OF II, and died from the effects.
/ \ wealthy lady in Rou>es Point bought an
/ empty p0rt-wlne Cask for vinegar barrel,
and finding that there was some solid sub
stance inside. had it unheaded and took
out over ten quarts Of logwood chips, used
/ for c0I0ring the spurious mixture which
bad been labelled and drank as pure port
vine. 4 liquor seller in ebay was sued
| by q city liquor house, for a bill of liquors.
His lawyer, Thomas Armstrong, E-q.. put
on the stand the clerks Of the wholesale
dealer, and proved by them that the entire
Dot was spurious. The dealers bill was
5000. The Court gave him six cents. and
/ should have given him Sing sing.
; .-nn 4
' Pure Ola C1gnac, isis" was seized at
Rouse, Point custom house. last year, for
unicrvaluatl5n The importer saved him
self from the penalty By proving that 1t was
all made on tins side the water within a few
months Several carloads of " brandy .
passed through Rou-es Point last summer,
entered at Il cents a bottle, which has,
doubtless. since been sold. some of it proba-
bis In Burlington, at 3 or 81 a bottle.
One lot OF IA 600 bottles Of wine was
entered at R0uscs Point. last September
which, when tested, showed but > per cent
OF alcohol. Strength had been. OF has since
been given to It by noxious drugs, and il
is now poisoning the drinkers. DR.. Cox,
STATE AS-aycr. OF Ohio, analysed 600 lot,
OF liquor, in one year, and found % per
cent. adulteratcd with poisonous ingre-
dients. II YOU 90 abroad, you are still
not sure OF securing pure wines and IL
Quors. In Paris, last year, 300 pipes o
spurious wines were destroyed by the gov
eminent inspectors. The port wine brought
to New York city al0ne far exceeds thl
entire product of the D0uro valley Tho
entire product of one year was 2l0 pipes
and of that year , ,Oj3 pipes were export
ed 10 the United States Single dealer
have sent to New York more champagne
81 Of ha aIt
region Like authorizations exist in beer
Hundreds Of brewers have been fined il
London. for using drugs in their manu-
{ mcture Dr Mapes analysed twelve kind
Of ale. and found c1cculus and tobacco il
every one of taem. American brewers by
means of strychuine and other drugs nov
secure five gallons of malt liquor, from
J mash which should properly yield but tw
! / gallons We may Is well cease 10 tall
B about pure liquors. The whole trafh
Is q diabOlical one, and the time is COMM
when It must 20 down, and the Legisla
ture or Congress that tries 10 uphold !
will g down with it.
, Passing to the results Of alcoholism
i. Mr. Taylor gaTe a fearful picture OF tn
diseases, crime and misery, flowing Iron
7 the use Of intoxicating drinks. Statistic
, show that 90 per cent of the crime in tn
l. country results from drink, and that Grim
has increased terribly in malignity, trOl
the use Of drugged and matdening con
d pounds. lntemperance destroys 10000
p lives each year, in this country, or {
many in every four years, as we lo
IN the war \ thousand murders an
If suicides occur from this cause every yea
e While 22l 600 teachers man our schools,
takes 800, eco liquor dealers to man Il
" grog shops and the money spent IN the
J, amounts to S47 IA year for every man, woma
&c and child in our land. The speaker ga
some startling statistics of the increase
idiocy and insanity, resulting from inter
p perancc. The United States census OF IL
" showed u GOO IDIOTS that of 1850 Is ,00C
N that Of $50. "a SO. But these figures a
too small. Parents are reluctant 10 dlsclo
ic to the marshals, in such cases, and not ov
z half the idiots appear in the census. The
rs are doubtless full 40 ,000 such now in I
l.. country, and half Of them were made so
> the drunkenness of their parents. The !
- sane persons in 1850 were one TO each A
k of our population in 1860 one to eve
he 1872; in 1870 one TO each l,O30-an |
!. crease 30 per cent greater than the lncrea
IL of cur population Full half of this
traccahle to the Use of alcohol and drugg
- drinks. In France 81 per cent of the
sanity is attributed To lntenperance.
Mt Great Britain, an eminent authority sa
o- 40 per cent Of the insane persons arc ma
T.. so by drink.
N This traffic Is sin that swells 10 Hcavt
Our government now receives from II St
A0 600 Geo q wear OF blood money, collected
he taxes tom distillers and dealers. l
al money from such eol crime and pa
IN peri>m can only pollute the public treasu
This traffic should nowhere have on 1t
Oh seal of legality. The government Shot
~ never license men 10 deal out idiocy,
lev sanity. murders, suicides, rags and misc
IN Oh ior a Congress that Will apply
remedy
'S Vermont, free. moral, intelligent, is
os' tunate IN possessing a prohibitory Ia
OF Stick to It. No matter if it does not
he every case fully answer its purpose. |
: far superior to any license law. Add t
OF the evil DAMAGES clause, and stand by