The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-03

The next state legislature will be asked
to enact law prohibiting the adulteration
of liquor, whether beer, vine or ardent
spirits. Such laws exist in Great Britain,
Germany and all the great nations of the
world. Because of the lack of such laws
lager beer, which is light and wholesome
beverage in Bavaria, is an unhealthful,
injurious drink in America, where il is
generally adulterated by the addition of
ingredients that make it unwholesome.
The adulteration of whisky on this Coast
by the process of offending" is practiced
everywhere to an alarming extent. The
profit that can be obtained by making and
selling this blended" whisky is so little
understood that the following extract from
a letter written by Minneapolis dealer to
friend in Seattle VIII be read with inter-
est by those who believe in the legal pro-
hibition of adulteration Of food or drink.
We quote:
l can make fine blend for about cents per
gallon In advance of spirits Spirits 10 worth
sL13, and adding cents for the .bleud' makes
Si.2s per gallon. Add your freight to that and
you have what the VIII sky would cost you The
best economy is TO buy the high proof spirits
here aud reduce IL when you get it In seattle
There is no use paving freight on water from
here unless tho article is very scarce in Seattle
This class of goods 10 giving the best sa,isfac-
ton in EFst-ciass saloons For every barrel o.
high proof spirit you ship out there you could
make two barrels. Hence your fire. ght would be
only one-halL can demoastrase the truth OF
what hsve said In regard to making blended
whisky from spirit to your satisfaction by send.
ing you few samples ii you so desire When
rFs l-s, N.su
you over your bar.
II will be pleasant news to the whisky
drinkers of Minneapolis to learn that the
whisky fed out to them in first-class
saloons is nothing but spirit with cent.
worth of "blend" added TO the gallon.
This so-called whisky is "all the rage in
Minneapolis" writes this dealer. who
sells ten barrels of this blended whisky
20 one of two-stamp goods" The FIRST
class" saloons of Minneapolis must be
making money. A gallon of blended
whisky costs sl.2s, and at 10 cents a drink.
this gallon would return nearly $40, or a
clear profit of nearly s. gallon.
This Is the kind of tlpple that the
whisky-drinking Republicans who attend
the national convention in June will be
served with rs fine goods" in June next.
II the convention should have a pro-
traeted session il is quite likely tina, the
slternates would be called upon fire.
quently to relieve the delegate principalsl
II this is the kind of whisky that is "an the
rage in the iirst-cIass saloons" of Mime.
spolis q proper respect tor the health Of
the Republican national convention will
oblige the national committee hereafter
20 select Louisville, KY. where the men
are brave, the women fair. and where
public opinion has not yet learned 10
look upon q vender Of offended goods"
as ether than the arch enemy Of man
kind.
Kentucky manhood has not yet sunk 70
the level of blended whisky" To sell
blended goods" in Kentucky would be
regarded as crime, 10 be summarily
punished by Judge Lynch, q crime against
nature. like infanticide, rape or incest: or
crime against the state, like treason, or
robhing the treasury.
Hereafter let the national committee
smother sill sectionalism. and preserve the
health of 1.-THE elect" of both parties by
calling the naiionsl conventions in Ken
tueky where offended" whisky is I'M
known. Otherwise the assembling of the