Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-29

Hoh OF TIE use or intoxicating liquors
liquors as beverage, has been tried
very thoroughly by the female crusa-
| ders. In saloons, in many cities, of
| many states, earnest and fervid snppli-
cations have been offered up in behalf
of the abatement of liquor selling and
drunkenness. Without intermission,
for days and weeks, scores and hun
dreds of good and Jealous women have
prayed for the suppression of this
great national evil an evil which
if reports and curreBt rumors are credl-
ble-ascends from the lowest rum shop
in the land to the halls of congress,
and numbers among its victims alike
the stevedore and the president With
the utmost and sincerest respect for
prayer power and with great regard to
the results which it las produced, in
the vital matter of temperance, the
Times desires to introduce the power
in the same cause of Anal ytical Chem
istry. The advocates Of the eradica-
ton Of saloonism can employ good an
| alytical chemists at reasonable rates of
compensation. These scientific gentle
men can ascertain exactly, aud demon
strate perfectly, just what the liquors
which saloon keepers sell to their im-
bibbing customers are composed Of,
and tell precisely the effects, in wear
and tear, which those ingredients
produce upon the stomach, bladder and
small ihtestinos Of humanity.
Recently, in Lincoln, the Capital
city Of Nebraska, Prof. Aughey, the
chemist of the Nebraska university,
has been Analysing some cf the popu-
lar decoctions which the guzzlers in
that occidental propinquity do most
delight in, and the results illustrate
the powers of endurance which attach
to the human stomach in that healthy
climate. A favorite brand of whisky
| obtained at a heightened saloon in Lin
coin, was found by Prof. Aughey to
contain the following delectable COM
ponents
Oil of Almonds.
Kerosene.
Potash.
Salts of Lead.
otrychnine.
That every quurt of such a mixture
may contain two fights, case of arson,
and murder, most mon will admit
without argument. That Governor
Butler, v no frequently, when acting
as the chief executive of that common.
wealth, irrigated his internal convolu-
tons with such whisky, should have
been charged with high official crimes
and misdemeanors. and impeachcd and
deposed from office, is not at all strange,
Could ordinary humanity suzzle such
decoction and remain either sane or
honest 7 Did not bad whisky, intemper.
atiyely move Governor Butler to off,
cial misdeeds ? And had the analysis
of Lincola's favorite whisky been made
and published when Lincoln saloonism
was in its babyhood, might not the
infant have died from the effects of
the exposure, and Governor Butler re-
manned an honest and unimpeached
officer, even unto this.date These are
serious moral conundrums, and the
honest mind will dwell profoundly up
on their probable solution.
A favorite brandy, in the same as
piring capital, has been Analysed by
the same chemist, and found to en-
body:
Sulphuric acid.
Turpentine.
Lime.
Strychnine.
Logwood.
Fusil oil
This entered largely into the diurnal
drinks OF the secretary Of state, James
who, after Buffers parchment, be-
came acting governor Of Nebraska, and
is now under indictment for an en-
bezzlement OF the public funds. And
who will declare that the possessor of a
stomach in which such an admixture
of diabollsm was constantly smashing
to and fro could possibly avoid COM
hitting crime? The power of analytic
al chemistry should be brought to bear
at once in favor of temperance.
Should the saloons of Chicago be visit
ed Immediately by chemist, invested
with commission from Mayor Colyin
giving him the right to demand and
receive, for the purposes of analysis,
| specimens Of each of the beverages
sold over their counters, we think when
the results should become known
through the Times, or some other great
moral engine of enlightenment and re-
form, there would occur visible d.
minution of drunkards in Chicago.
| When habitual drinkers can read in
the newspapers every day the precise
composition of the misunderstanding
style Of liquid pyrotechnics which they
swallow-for the small price of fifteen
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