The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-04-12
DENATURIZED ALCOHOL.

DENATURIZED ALCOHOL.
Removal of Tax Would Revolutionize Fuel.
Power and Illumlnant Problems.
Congressman Murdoch claims that
if the tax is taken off denatured al
cohol it will work a revolution in the
field of fuel, power and illuminants.
He says:
This will be accomplished par
TALLY through known methods, but a
greater development will come through
methods to be discovered, for there
is no Industrial avenue closed to the
open sesame of American genius. By
known methods the same volume of
alcohol burns nearly twice as long as
kerosene and gives far better light:
it is a cleaner and safer fuel than
gasoline. By methods that are to
come I believe alcohol will advance
far beyond it's present superiority. I
believe this because this country, the
chief producer of corn, which is the
best source Of alcohol, has for nearly
fifty years held Industrial alcohol in
leash. In those fifty years all other
chemical products and fuels and il
luminants have been free. Burnable
alcohol, for industrial use, has been
held back. Release it, let American
genius have hold of it, and it will
open the door to chamber of mar
vels.
q The most important effect of re-
moving the tax on denatured alcohol
would be it's regulation of the present
erratic price of kerosene and gasoline.
Gasoline sells in some of the eastern
cities at 9 cents per gallon and in
some of the western states at 30 cents
per gallon. Kerosene has a similar
range. The price of both is arbi-
trarily fixed. Actual tests have dem
onstrated that alcohol at 80 cents
gallon is cheaper for light than kero-
sene at Is cents gallon. Twenty
cent alcohol would drive 1O-cent kero-
sene down in price or out Of the mar
ket. For internal combustion engines
20-cent alcohol would bring 3O-cent
gasoline down to 20 cents and would
in time supplant it, perhaps, because
gasoline. of which petroleum yields
but two per cent. is increasing in price
because Of it's increased use in en-
gines.
THE internal combustion engine is
a conquering march through
the land. Light in weight, small in
size, easy to start, requiring a mini
mum of attendance while in operation,
it is everywhere bringing new econ
omies. It is turning the weekly news
paper press, the town feed mills, the
lathe of the village blacksmith, the
belt of the local elevator, and in some
sections it bales the farmers hay,
shells his corn, shreds the fodder,
pumps the water, separates the cream,
saws the wood. With the tax removed
from denatured alcohol the use of
the internal combustion engine will in
crease by leaps and bounds. Experts
estimate that the output will reach
100, 900 alcohol engines year.
In 1850 this country produced co.
0O0,O gallons of alcohol. This was
before the tax went on. David A.
Wells, a special commissioner, re-
ported to the Fifty third congress that
in his opinion 80 per cent of the whole
product, prior to the imposition of
any taxes on alcohol, was consumed
in the arts and industries. Conse-
quently, with a population of O,OOO,-
600 in 1860 we used industrially and
for fuel and light 100000 gallons,
that is one gallon of alcohol per
capita. Leaving out of consideration
the great inventions which have come
since 1860, other new uses and i'm
proved methods, the same production
would bring our use of denatured
alcohol today up to $4,000, 900 gallons
annually. It will be far greater than
that. -
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