The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-30
FREE OF TAX.
Tax of 81 0S Removed from Grain Alcohol
Means Millions of Dollars to the
Farmers of the United States.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT RESPECTED.

many Oh Jne O0lCeu OJdJeS Sena- |
tors are mlllionaires and more or
less mixed up with the trusts;
that Nelson w. Al1rich, the ia.
thcr ln-law of young John D.
Rockefeller is chairman of the
Senate Finance Com mittee, the
strong recommendation Of Presi
dent Roosevelt, together with tn
earnest petitions of thousands of
farmers throughout the country,
for the removal of the tax OF S2.0S
on grain alcohol, led the Senate
last Friday to concur with the
House in the removal of the tax
on grain alcohol, the same to go
into effect on the first of next
January.
The United States now collects
a tax Of 81 o8 per gallon on all the
alcohol consumed in the country.
This tax amounts to from four
teen to sixteen times the actual
value of the substance, and has
been justified heretofore by the
necessity for revenue and the ex.
pediency of heavily taxing the
spirits used ror drinking pur-
poses. The result has been
that practically no alcohol is en-
ployed IN this country for INDUS
trial purposes save that obtained
from the destructive distillatlon
of wood. The latter costs a great
deal more than the grain alcohol,
is deadly poison and is insult
able for many of the purposes to
which ethyl alcohol is put. Hence
the developm entof alcohol motors
aud lighting systems has been
left to Germany and France, and
many other lines of industrial
progress have been closed TO
American enterprise and capital.
, Now it is proposed in the bill
which has just passed both
branches of Consress to remove
the tax on such alcohol as has
been "denatured," or made un-
drinkable or unfit for use as a
} beverageprlor to withdrawal from
the bonded warehouse. This pro-
cess OF "denaturlzation" is sim
pie one, and consists of adding
some suitable substance to the al
l cohol-from 2 to per cent. of
2 wood alcohol would do the busl-
ness.
The following report prepared
for The North American by an
J, expert on the character and uses
. of denaturized alcohol is of prime
interest at this time:
Denaturized alcohol is alcohol
to which has been added certain
very repungentingredients which
J. render it's use as a beverage not
= only undesirable. but impossible.
The most approved method in for.
l eign countries, of which Germany
i Is leading exponent, is to add
u wood alcohol and some pyrldine
u The cost of alcohol for period
u of ten years from the books of
Z large dlstlllerv IN Peoria, ILL.,,
. shows it to be for 80 per cent
- strength, 40 cents per win
gallon over and above the cost o1
u the grain. A bushel of corr
makes nearly three gallons o.
such alcohol, and as the residue
: from dlstilling is used for cattle
: feed, the cost of such alcohol il
9 practically figured directly from
g the price of such corn per bushel
- Practically denaturized alcoho
Il would cost about 10 to 20 4nt'
- per gallon.
" For hghtlng purposes tests
:, have shown that one gallon OF al
:, cohol is equal to two gallons o
" kerosene.
" Alcohol, when burned in an in
- candescent mantle lamp gives
clear, brilliant, wholesome an
20 efficient light at cost of ! cen
= for thirty candle power per hour
= No wick is used, as the combus
ton Of the vapor is regulated eas
~ lily by little valve, and the high
>. may be turned down low for tn
:, sick room or burned at it's utmos
80 brilliancy. The burner of sue
-. lamp will fit any ordinary kert
~ sene lamp.
:. AS alcohol mixes with water,