The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-22

the man who wants pure whisky get
It from the government bonded ware
house before any rectifers or blenders
have tempered with it
I will explain that so far as my in
YestigatiOns Went-and I tried to 20
very thoroughly into the matter-I dis
covered that pure whisky is very rare.
Most people do not like it for the reason
that it has too much alcohol in it, All
blended and rectified WHISTLES, as I said
moment ago, have as a basis spirits
that is. alcohol, either deodorized or not.
The deOdOriZed alcohol is the purest
form of alcohol in the world. 1t has no
poison in it at all but It has no favor
and people will not drink it. You may
reduce it to the necessary strength by
the addition of distilled water and il is
a pure, colorless fluid like clear water.
It has no color at all; it has no taste;
it simply burns you and intoxicates;
that is all; and people do not want to
drink, at least those have seen have
never been willing to drink for that
purpose alone.
The added ingredient referred to in
the bill take to mean colOring matter
which is put IN the water-white alco-
hol to give in color and also to give 1t
smoothness or make it little less biting
on the throat"
Mr.. Hale-What is put in it?
Mr.. Tillman-WeIl, they use burnt car
amel, various dye stuffs and one thing
and another to give color to it. They
also use what is known as beading oil.
I do not know exactly what it is. It is
a chemical. I got a sample OF II ana
carried it home to South Carolina for
our chemist to try to investigate.
Beading Oil.
ct is poisonous, of course. Beading
oil is added to the alcohol to make the
bubbles come. If you take pure al
cohol and pour it out from one glass
into another it simply drops down to
the level without a solitary bubble on
it; but If you take pure whisky and
pour it out there is always nice bead
there. The fellow who wants to get
rich selling cheap alcohol for fine
whisky will put this beading oil in the
poorest form of alcohol and he viii put
burnt caramel in it and will make gin,
rum, brandy or whisky and sell it in
the market.
Whisky that is bottled before it has
aged in wood is considered by those
who are experts never to get any bet
/ ter. whereas if it is left in the barrel IL
improves up to six or seven years, and
/ then they say there is doubt whether
! it gets any better eOE=not-
"You take a fine alcohol and pour 1t
into a vat and add some two stamp
whisky as it is known, or straight
/ whisky that has come out of the gov
eminent warehouse and been aged by
natural process, with its aroma and
| flavor increasing every year As say,
you add a certain percentage of this
two stamp whisky to your pure al
| cohoI and by adding some coiorIng
matter and some sugar in the way OF
burnt caramel, you get what are
known as the fine blended WHISTLES of
/ commerce. selling for IS or Sc q gall
/ lon. But they all have at the bottom
\ the deOdoriZed alcohol, which IS worth
s12T a gallon, I believe. To take out
/ the word added would simply destroy
/ the opportunity of Furnishing the adul-
terator for adding coloring matter and
sweetening matter and bead oil to the
product in order to BAN boozle his Gus
! toners
Senator TilIman's accurate knowl-
edge overwhelmed Senator Foraker
and defeated his amendment.