The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-10-11
How tho Profits are Made.


tiller. the wholesale and retail deal
er, over and aboye the actual cost
including the government revenue
which consists almost entirely o
adulteratlons.
Everybody knows that each gal
Ion of whlskey''gnes to swell the
tremendous Wholesale and rotail
traffic in whiskey, from the time il
leaves tho distillerv until it reaches
the consumer, pays good profit.
Very few people who drink whis.
key, though, pause to consider
that this profit comes. not from
pure whiskey, but from some other
source.
The following facts written out
for the Star by one OF it's most ,n-
telligent subscribers, show this coR.
clusivelY:
"The revenue on gallon Of
whiskey is $l.1O, on two gallons,
1920. Only two gallons Of whis-
key is allowed to be made to a
bushel of corn, which is worth 75c
OF So. 95 for both; two jugs at loo
each, makes So ID for all, and as it
Can be sold for S1.5O per gallon, or
two gallons for $500, We hove the
strange fact Of the whiskey being
sold at less than cost by l5c. Now
as a matter of fact, we know that
6istillcrs, wholesale and retail
dealers, all make q profit, and the
balance is adulteration." :"
This profit therefore in the first
instance, is paid by all consumers,
high and low, rich and poor, in
coin Of the realm, constituting the
purchase price of liquor.
It. is paid in the second place, by
different persons in various aud di.
vers ways.
The unfortunate man who hao
become a slave to the drink habit,
has lost all sense Of pride aud Is
already deep in the mire, contri.
butes his part by sinking himsel f
that much deeper in the pit of in
fanny and ehame.
+ G respectable moderate drink
~, no satisfies himself. for a time
With three drinks a day, thinks h.
con,..s off light with only al occa
slunal spre4 ) he holds his own for
a time, but as age creeps. Oh
apace be finds his power of self
co,troI grows weaker, and slowly +,
p~rhap~, but surely, his usefulDess
as , business man, his respectable
ity rs Il citizen, and the happine ess
of his home, all 90 to help pay tie
profits.
The dearest price, though, paid
in this currency to the whiskey
traffic comes from our young mon
and boys who are 90 foolish 40 to
cultivate the habit.
The taste for whiskey is not q
natural one, but in every Instance
cultivated taste, when once,
though, it gets it's hold on a boy, it
is there for life, some boys may
have the pride and manhood tc
control it but it is always q battle
to the death. Why create, thore>
fore with AL unnatural habit. the
necessity for this lifetime strugglei
1t is the rarest thing in the
world, though, that young man
who has formed the habit, ever
successfully controls it; in ninety
nine cases out Of one hundred the
result IS ruined life.
An old drunkard whose hoary
locks, and tottering steps, betoken
his near approach t> tho grave, 10
pitiable sight, indeed, but infi-
nitely moro deplorable is the with
ering blight of this useless habit,
day by day, slowly, but surely
destroying The hopes, the usefu'
neAs Sud the souls of our young
men and youths.
Boye, d.m't do it; you have too
much at stake; the old mal al n..~
has tut few -h,lrt y-nrs to- acr
fc~: but with YOU it. IL diff-r.r
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