The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-08
INTEMPERANCE.

intempcrancc, at Burlington lately, 10
which he makes some startling assertions
but which, it is generally understood, are
susceptible OF proof. The Free Press
gives the following report Of it:
The speaker said he was no alarmist
but he must ask, is conscience dying out
of the race? OF the thousand millions
that people the globe, eight hundred mil
lions use intoxicating beverages. We
may expect nothing better of Ileathendoln;
but what shall we say of professcdly
Christian lands. which suffer deadly poi.
sons to be made and sold on every corner,
by unscientiic and unscrupulous 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 He'll The trade in
them involves an outlay of S1,500,000,.
600 year--or more than is spent to sus-
tain the military, education and religion
of the race.
These beverages are composed Of alco-
hoi, water and drugs, The first of these
it itself poison. 1t is so defined by the
best authorities, medical chemical,
Many of these were cited by Mr.. Taylor,
whe described also various experiments
of administration Of alcohol to animals
and birds, with Immediately fatal results
Nothing but poison will produce intoxica
tion, and for the poison Of alcohol there i.
no antidote. To this poison in the NAL
uiactnre Of liquors. is added drug poison
and other most nauseous and filthy sub
stances. The liquor traffic is gigantic
fraud, which should be annihiatcd, except
for medical and scientific purposes.
Mr.. Taylor went at length into the
subject Of the aduteration of liquors
The liquor men, he said, have a secret
literature of their own A gentlemen Of
his acquaintance had made a collection Of
books devoted to recipes for manutactur.
ing spurious liquors, For one of these
books Of but 200 pages, which cost him
S10-a liquor dealer had offered him
S100-but he would not sell it, as it
could not be replaced, Mr.. Taylor said
that he had himself six of these books, in
his library, and from them, with the re.
quired drugs, essences and chemicals, he
could max any kind of liquor, which
could not be told from the genuine, with.
out chemical analysis. In this manufac.
ture hundred and fifty kinds of drugs
and chemicals are used, including aqua
forts, potash, vitriol, strychnine, nux
vomica, coccolls indicus, strarnonium,
prussic and nitric acids, sugar Of lead,
tobacco, etc, etc. These books show how
to make porter and ale at 50 to 81 o
barrel, which will sell at s25 q barrel
and French brandy, which sells at profit
of two thousand per cent. They tell how
to restore spoiled wines and liquors. II
is known that thousands Of barrels Of
spoiled cider arc used in London, in the
manufacture Of spurious wines, which
contain not drop of grape juice. Most
abominablc substitutes are added in some
cases. A decoction made by sleeping
cock reaches in hot water, is added to
Madeira wine to give it "nutty flavor" "
Black ants are used in like manner in
other liquors and these are put up in
barrels soaked in baru.yard manurr.
After detailed descriptions of various ad.
alterations, Mr.. Taylor recounted some of
the evidence that these spurious liquor J
are in common use, in this vicinity. These
receipts, he said are sold and used in
Rouses Point, a man in LaColle, just
across the Canada line, procured some OF
them, and made up quantity ofliquoIs.
lie put into some, by mistake, an exces'
sive proportion Of some OF the poisonou
drugs. His own wife was the first to
drink of it, and died from the effects. y
} wealthy lady in Rouses Point bought au
empty port.wine cask for vinegar barrel,
aud finding that there was some solid sub
stance inside, had it unheaded and took
. ont over ten quarts Of logwood chips
which had been labelled aud drank AS
pure port wine. A liquor seller in Chazy
was sued by city liquor house, for Il
bill of liquors, His lawyer Thomas Arm
strong, Esq, pu, on the stand the clerk
of the wholesale dealer, aud proved by
} them that the entire lot was spurious
} The dealers bill was 5000. The Cour;
r gave him six cents, and should have gavt
him Sing Sing
A lot of "French Brandy" labelled
| Pure Old Cognac, 1915" was seized Mt
Rouses Point custom house, last year, for
undervaluation. The importer saved him.
self from the penalty, by proving that ii
was all made on this side the water with
in q few months Several carloads Of
brandy" passed through Rouses Point
last summer, entered at s cents bottle
which has. doubtless, since been sold
some probably in Burlington, at SO tr
81 bottle One lot of ii 900 Of wine
was entered at Rouses Point, last SCI
tember, which when tasted, showed but ::
per cent of alcohol. Strength had been
or has since been given to it by noxiou,
drugs, and it is now poisoning the drink
cts. Dr. Cox, State Assayer, of Ohio
analyzed 600 lots of liquor iu one year
: and found 80 per cent adulteratei with
poisonous ingredients. lfyou 90 abroad
D you are still not sure of securing pure
wines and liquors In Paris, last year
300 pipes OF spurious wines were destroy
: ed by the government INSPECTORS IT,,
= port wine brought to New York city alone
far exceeds the cntire product of III,
Deuro valley. The entire product of ono
year was 30 pipes, aud of that year ,,
: 052 pipes were exported to the Unit,t
g States. Single dealers have sent to New
York more champagne than the entir'
9 product Of the champagne region Like
IS adulterations exist in beer, Hundr, ds o
r brewers have been fined in Loudnn, 70
using drugs in their manufacture DR.
. Mupes, analyzed twelve kird> of ale, anC
iouui cocculus and tobacco in every on
of them Amoricau brewers by means o
:, strychuine aud other drugs, now secur
,s five gallons of malt liquor, from masl
"a which should propery yield but two gal
Ions, W. nay as well ase to tall