Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-30
PRAISE rye I0RD.
Rev Geo o Barnes Yates a Lesson IN Mis-
~ mating and tells rs oil About IT.
IAMRENcERuR0. Nav 2lth. 1882.

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Rev Geo o Barnes Yates a Lesson IN Rhis
~ mating. and tells rs oil About IT.
LAwRENcEBuRo, May 18th, 1882.
Dtar Interior;
Here is my promised Whisky
letter, for a. | 60 through placcs ! pm
down things az find them, IL | can q,
any good by IL; and a. every body know
that Anderson county whisky his n finer
bead" more delicate flavor, aud a wider
spread celebrity than any other Kind Of
that awful liquor, want 10 tell your rad
ers what have seen Of il at home"
hope the LORD will use all these letters
for Ills owp glory. IL thought not, you
would not catch me putting pen or pencil
to paper.
As then Clarke and Fayette produce
Shorthorns, Bourbon and Woodford race
whisky. Not that other counties do not
make il. They do in large quantities. 81
there are fine horses iai-ed in Anderson.
But the Characteristic feature Of Anderson Is
| its sine" whisky. Understand me to use
any good adjective, in this connection, with
quotation marks. Let no one suppose me,
for a moment TO be any other than a 'chisky
hatcr But when that Is said, | am done
II any one thinks me a whisky manufsct-
urer hater, or a whisky wholesale dealer
hater, or y saloon keeper hater, he does
not know me. IL any one supposes that |
consider it my mission to attack those dear
people because they see 1T TO manufacture
or sell the awful stuff, then they mistake
my mission utterly. IL know my Com-
mission il reads-"Love YOUR neighbor As
YOURSELF after loving God first; and my
''neighborH is the one who needs my help,
il have any help to give. | viii no more
attack the manufacture or sale Of whisky
than the drinking Of il. IL is not my bu-
siness, because it is not the LORDS BUSH
ness in this day OF grace TO rdise he
question Of sin d9dina any sinner.
What then? | will show him a. best
can a Savior. II can get him to come to
Jesus, | know Jesus will not only save
him in his sins, but from his sins Mean
chile 1 am not a judge Of Whdt is SIN for my
ncigibOr. l bring him 10 Jesus and leave
him in LOVES hands where all things
are righted in way that the heart fully
approves and endorses. "The yoke Easy
the burden light" SO | dom. expect 10
open my lips about whisky while in An
dersOB, in an offensive way. | will tell
every distiller in Anderson just as | will
every unsaved farmer that God has moth =
ing against him at all. That HE opens
His arms to receive him and no questions
asked. He can save him with 10000
barrels Of the stuff in bond, as easily as lie
can save a poor fellow with ten glasses ur-
der his jacket; as easily as lie can save
a stingy, covetous farmer or merchant, or
tradtsman, who loves money better than
life; as easily as He can save a woman with
bad temper, or an unruly tongue For
myself i have a right TO hate whisKey and
never TO taste it. For the rest, | will
preach JESUS day and night to my neigh
Dor, if per adventure he may fall in love
with HIM az ] have done, and find Him
the 'short cut" TO happiness and peace.
and hope many Of the Anderson think
ing men will come TO JESUS, not TO hear
| HIN cay the moment he receives, Nov
knock the head out Of every whisky bar
rel you have, or cast you off," but TO
know Hin as forbearing, gentle Savior,
who is "long -sufiering and gracious" and
waits patiently TO get us out Of our diff
culties in the easiest possible way-bear.
ing a thousand failures, as He has done
with you, my brother, with you nv sister,
in those wrongs Of lille and temper and
dued, though you have been a child OF
God 10, Is, or 90 years, but which the
LORD patiently bears with, ~ once he did
with "stiff necked" people in the wild err
ness Of "provOcation," for 40 years"
Bro Charley Williams called for me in
his buggy at half.past eight, Wednesday
morning. A brisk four miles drive brought
us 10 the Kentucky river, and the great
"A r. A. -. II -.
there, though he lives in Luxembourg.
and he gave US courteous welcome, and
at once, with true gentlemanly Kindness,
set himself to give US all the information
we wished. Il was all new TO me, for bora
and raised in Kentucky, as ] have beet, j
never went through distiilery before last
Wednesday. First Mr.. Ripy took US to
where savage little engine, with much
clatter was raising from wells 20 feet deep,
the pure spring water required in large
quantities for the manufacture Of whisky.
BY the way, the theory is, that the water
makes the difference in the whiskies here
and other places, and the discovery Of the
fact that Anderson county had just the
right kind of water for it. led gradually to
concentration of distilleries here, until
now there sre 10 in the county, paying last
year tax Of one million Fix hundred
thousand dollars, al 80 cents TO the gallon
Ii certainly isn't the corn, for theY use,
chiefly, the rich yellow corn Of Illinois,
from which it is impossible by the same
process Of manufacture, 70 make the same
quality of whisky, at home. Mr.. Ripy
tells me that he never could see the least
difference in the whisky made from the
expensive white corn OF Kentucky, and
the cheaper yellow Of Illinois. The tenn
perature Of the water in these wells is So,
and we took a good drink Of il before
starting on our further investigations.
Mounting pair Of stairs from the base
ment where boiler and engines we're doing
their work, we found ourselves in the
grinding room. Here the corn is ground
about % fine az il for bread. The ground
meal is then conveyed by elevators into a
large hopper, from which il is LET down ia
exactly graduated quantities. regulated by
lever in the hand Of one Of the wOrkmen
into the mash tub, where il is mixed with
Just fixed quantity Of the spent beer,
from which the whisky has beea already
by distillation. This spent beer
il the same as that fed 10 cattle aud hogs
called "distillery slops." This fixed guam
tity Of scalding hot spent beer poured upon
a Fixed quantity OF corn meal Is analogous
TO the leaven required TO ferment -four for
bread. This mass is dumped by lever into
a large barrel and then trucked away to
place in the large apartment where many
rows Of barrels are soon arranged, in each
Of which is exactly ihis quantity of
"mash." Here il remains, cooling of for
"a hours, when, with TIE addition Of
6xed quantity Of rye meal about half
peck 70 the bushel Of rye,) the contents
are empiied into the fermenting vats