The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-01-14
Lea TopERs READ THIS.
How a New York Minister Showed up
the Liquor People Drink.


Rev. Madison G. Peters OF the Bloom
ingdale Church at the Boulevard and
Sixty-eighth street, New York, on Sun
day evening last gave an interesting
lecture on Samples from Sample
from Sample Rooms"
Mr.. Peters began by saying that In
December no visited dozen of the
best kept liquor stores in the neigh
borhood and bought pint samples OF
their best gin, whiskey, brandy, port
wine, sherry and other liquors, and
theso he had taken to expert chemists
for analysis In the samples of pure
Holland GIN" said he, I'VE found neu-
trail spirits, rotten corn, juniper Der.
ries, turpentine and vitrol. We drop
ped the white OF an egg and an oyster,
both easily digestible articles, into this
compound and saw them shriyel ur
into hard, stringy masses. This shows
how nicely drop OF gin aids diges'
| ton.
SIN the sample OF fine old hand
made Kentucky whiskey'" he continu-
ed, We found neutral spirits, glyoe-
rlne. sulphate of zinc, chronic acid,
creosote, unslacked limo and fusel oil.
Now, fifteen draehms of fusel oil
evaporated in a box will make the
toughest cat you can put in that box
insensible in less than an hour.
POISON IN ALL.
But the port wine" said Mr. Peters,
that rich, fruity drink which solid re
spectability Is proud to take after din
ner-that was worst of oil. What do
you think we found in the best sam
pie that l could buy? Well, there were
neutral acid, glycerine. licorice, zinc.
mercury, antimony, salts OF tartar and
ether, nuriatic acid and alum.
~ have statistics to show that one
hundred times more imported port
wine is sold than can DO made from
all the grapes in Oporto. 1t Is the
same with all other wines. Madeira
produces $4,000 barrels of wine per
year and America alone drinks so, goo
barrels of Madeira wine in that time. "
In the best lager beer he could get
Mr.. Peters said there We're discover ed
pepper, ginger. vinegar, capsicum.
cream of tartar, acctic, nitric citrlc,
tartaric, sulphuric and prussic acids;
| nitric, sulphuric and acetic ether
spirits of nitre, the oils OF vitriol, tur-
pentine and cnssia; caraway seed.
cloves, iaponic extract, Entertainments.
orris root, grains of paradise, Spanish
juice, black ants, dried cherries,
orange peel, corlandsr seed. white oak
bark, fannie acid, fennel seed, cnrda-
mon seed. NORWOOD, copperas, alum.
sulphates OF iron and copper, liquor
ice, opium. gentian root, quassia, COO
culus indicus, tobacco saltpetre, log
wood, marble dust, eggshells, harris
horn, nutgalls, potash and soda.
POLICE PROTECTION.
zone ounce of whiskey." continued
the speaker, lis q good big drink.
There are 12S of these in gallon
which at ten cents Il drink brings IN
fl2.S0 for what costs tine saloonkeepel
just Sl.70. But how is 1t these 5000 are
allowed to stay open beyond their To-
gal hours and have their petty crimes
winked at? 1t Is not police stupidity. II
| Is police completely.
by police mean not the patrol
men, but the captains and commits
sioners who, by the elaborate system
of blackmall they maintain on these
Saloons live like princes, though they
not so long ago were paupers. know
| a little saloonkeeper In this town who
| told me onlya short time ago that he
put up 81 a week TO the police regu-
larly for the privilege of keeping open
on sunday. ii ali iis companions were
| taxed the same small amount there
would still be the neat sum of S400, 900
per year spent for police protection"
| THE newspapers have done splen
did work this week in sending McGlory
away TO the penitentiary. Now let
them go a step further and publish
the names of the property holders
who let their buildings for saloons
and disreputable houses. There would
he many u church member and pillar
| of society found upon the list, war
rant you. Why / am sure that some
OF these respectable citizens would
lease a building to the devil himself to
start an annex to hades in ii he would
only guarantee them ten per cent
more rent and would furnish ice to
cool his rent money upon before they
came around each month to collect"