Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-15
Too Much Whisky.

There is one thing that is being more
apparent every day. and that is the fact
that the supply of whisky in this C oun-
is more than equal 10 the demand.
There are millions of barrels of whisky
on hand that cannot be used, aud the
owners of it go To congress and get
permission to delay paying the govern
ment tax on il. The price is SO low
they do not want To- sell it. and so they
stand off the government on the tax. If
farmer has Il quantity of wheat on
hand, and the price is low, he does
not want to sell it. he cannot get the
assessor 10 leave it off of the assess
ment roll. and he has to pay tax on it
as personal property. But the whisky
baron. or bourbon, is allowed privileges
that the honest farmer has not The
manufacture of whisky should be
stopped There is less use for it each
year. and the time is not far distant
when it will only be used for medicinal
purposes, or mechanical purposes, such
as raising barns, rs the fellow said.
Whisky might be used to make steam,
in place of other fuel, and it is possible
some inventor will discover n method
of utilizing it outside of the stom-
aches Of human beings. Bat until some
such discovery is made, its manufacture
should cease. rs there is too much of it
hand Ihnra l., q
who have tried for a lifetime to drink
up all the whisky in the country. but
they have not been successful, and the
most of them have gone down to drunk
ards graves, while whisky's flag is still
there. A man who had been hard
drinkcr for thirty years, became sick.
and almost died. but finally recovered,
and quit drinking entirely. a friend
asked him how it was that he came to
quit, and he said: well, I'll tell YOU.
| thought | could beat whisky, and my
object was to drink up all the whisky
in the world. | wanted to drink i
faster than the distillcries could make
it, knowing that if did, it was only a
mere question Of time when it would
all be gone, and then thought | would
have the credit of wiping the curse
out Of existence. People would say. as
! passed by, there goes the man that
drank all the whisky in the world He
drank it faster than they could make
it. But failed, owing TO a put up
job, dirty trick, as dirty a trick rs
was ever PLAYED on white man"
How was that, asked the friend
80, | was gaining on them, said the
old topper, a> he drank glass of water
Il was making the distillers hump
themselves, and in another month |
would have oycrtaken them and wiped
out the last barrel. But just rs was
congratulating myself, and seeing sue
cess and snakes staring me in the face.
the cuSscs began 10 make Whisky niqhts
That settled me. AS long rs they only
run distilleries day times, could beat
them, but when they began to run two
gangs of hands, and work all night.
while slept, you see they got the ad-
vantage of me. and | never could
catch up with them. A man has got to
have some rest, and the little rest |
took spoiled my scheme, and | have
had to give up. and let somebody else
take the job of drinking all the whisky
in the world" There are so many
good citizens and tax payers working
hard 10 drink all of the whisky in this
country. that it is time the government
put stop to its manufacture for
time in order to let the deserving cti-
zcns catch Us. Let the manufacture of
whisky be stopped for few years, and
these deserving citizens will be encour.
aged in their endeavors, and probably
in time they can drink it all up. Then
let whisky become questionable. and
nobody will drink it, and there will be
no use of making any more.-Pecb' S
san.