Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-18
|MARSHALL'S ALCOHOL BILL
Will help THE NORTHWEST
Denaturized Alcohol Plants Would Mean Added Industries
in All The Northwestern States and Insure
the Farmers a Market

| lOl Ou6uSlV0 w tuG SLuSll.
There may be another objection in
congress because of the claim that
will probably be put forward, that this
legislation will reduce the revenues
of the government all the way from
S10,OO0,OGO to $3O,0O0,O0o year. It is
said by experts, however, that this re-
'luction will be less than half a mil
lion dollars, and If it should be any
where near this sum it will be unim-
portant.
The legislation has already ap-
pealed strongly to the national grange
which has indorsed it. 1t will also ap-
peal to temperance people and pro-
hibitionists. 1t is said that The New
Voice, the prohibition organ of the
country, has already indorsed it earn
estly. The ground for this endorse
ment lies in the strong probability
that, if this legislation should be en-
| acted, many alcohol distilleries, which
now make alcohol for consumption as
a beverage, will find it more profitable
it exclusively for the arts and manu-
features, thus saving the $2.O7 a gal
Ion tax and increasing present profits.
This is the way the thing has worked
abroad, and there is no reason to sup
pose that it will not work in that way
here.
AS showing something of the i'm
portance of this situation in one
small country, / quote from the Am
erican consul general at Frankfort,
Germany, who, speaking of denatur-5
lied alcohol in Belgium, writes the
state department as follows:
''Two important industries in Bel
gium owe their existence entirely to
the fact that denaturized alcohol is
not subject to any tax in that coun-
try, namely, the manufacture of ether
and of artificial silk, which use more
than 100000 gallons of alcohol year
ly. The demand for alcohol by those
Industries has increased about thir-
teenfold since 1885," >* G. ~
Representative Marshall has been
quick to see that what has been done
in Europe can be done in the United
States, and he truly says that If the
legislation spoken of can be had, it
will be the greatest boon for the
farmers Of the northwest that they
have ever had. 1t will stimulate the
growth of potatoes in the greatest DO
tato section of the land It will stimu-
late the growth of corn, even as far
north as the Dakotas and Minnesota,
for alcohol can be made from damaged
corn as well as from that which is
perfect. . 1t will furnish a reason for
4 the culture of sugar beets on large
scale, and thousands of acres of farm
land, now practically worthless, can
: be made to yield rich harvests with
certainty every year. ~
Representative Marshall argues
that by starting these extensive manu-.
factories in the northwest, right at
: the place where the raw material is
produced, freight both ways and long
i hauls can be saved, increasing the
profits to the farmer as we'll as to the
'dfstiller and manufacturer RI
: The northwest can consume the
manufactured product, and get that
product for much less money than lis
now being paid for gasoline and kero
sene. This is a matter of great i'm
1 portance in the Dakntas and Mime
il sofa, where the use OF gasoline en-,
4 gines for all kinds OF farm purposes
4 is becoming general, and where gaso
q linz costs at retail ALL the way from
a is to 20 cents gallon. 1t has been
4 estimated that the denatnrized alec
hoI can be sold for from 10 to IL cents
& a gallon and still leave a good profit
& Three gallons Of it can be made from
Z a bushel Of corn.
What is also of the first importance
4 is the fact that the by-products o.
| these distilleries can be disposed 81
\ at good prices FOR feed for cattle
4 These by-products will pay the entire
+ cost Of distillation thus enabling thu
nufacturers to sell their product
& at a very low price
Representa- Hill OF Connecticut
! who Is much interested IN the PROPOSE
3 ton, is member Of the ways and
{ means committee, and will help ths
! cause along when that COMMITTEES be
gins the consideration Of d bill ask
ing that denatGrized alcohol be OK
I empted from revenue daaty. He takes
7 the position that nanufa cturers Id lid.
/ Town state are severely Handicapped
I AS the result on the s2.07 lax, ans
lcites one Illustration out OF many.
/, certain firm III his district, engages
& In making cartridges and powder, dia
] ills its own alcohol and ships 1T ii