The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-12
BEWARE
OF BLENDS Z
-------
Wiley's Warning to Users Of
Whisky
DECLARES NONE PURE
# n Adulerated, Even ii Bottled in
Bond The Alcohol coagulates the
Protoplasms and Brings on
Old Age
DECLARES NONE PURE

Washington, D. q, Feb. 12-@ Beware
Iof blended whiskeys, for they coagulate
re protoplasrns in the human cells and
bring On old age AZ galIop. Stick to
straight whiskey, for there il nothing
harmful III the real article; but be cer-
tain that you get what You pay for,
and not some mixture Of raw alcoholic
spirits fresh from the still which will
poison your system and madden your
brain" This, in brief, is the advice
Of Dr.. Harvey w Wiley, chief chemist
|of the agricultural department. One of
the most startling statements made BY
Dir. Wiley was that he does not believe
any Of the whiskey sold over the bars
of saloons Is pure. Even the famous
bottled III bond whiskey ii adulterated,9
said DR.. Wiley, for the saloon keeper
buys one case Of it and then continues
to fill up the bottles from his demiiohn
in the cellar. Most OF the whiskey got
over the bars is simply neutral alcohol"
When asked for an accurate and scien-
VIM dtrlA iDblDH VI NDlrhNAg III " AiFN
gave the following definition: @Nhiskey
IS a distillate from the fermented mash
of malt, and it contains all the CON
generic products formed with ethyl al
cohol during the fermentation that are
volatile at the ordinary temperatures Of
ldistillation. Most OF the whiskoy sold
at RETAIL he said. SHOULD not even be
called blended whiskey, for 1t Is the
antithesis Of straight whiskey. il
should, therefore, be called crooked
wbiskeF, for it is an imitation. 1t is
nothing whatever except neutral spirits,
colored and favored / think that a
drink like this il a poison, pure and sim
pie. It coagulatcs the protoplasms in
the cells and brings on old age.
AS long as man can keep his cells
limpid and keep his protoplasms limpid,
be win never grow old. Alcohol abso-
luteiy coaglllates the protoplasm the
moment it touches it, but the alcohol
that Il in whiskey or brandy or rum Is
so mingled bv natures operations that
it Is an entirely different proposition.
There is all the difference in the world
between drink Of straight alcohol and
drink Of whiskey. brandy or rum.
Il made an experiment which was
more convincing that had expected. /
took twelve YEAR old whiskey that was
mellow and rich and fragrant, and I
put Il iii still and distilled half Of it
over, ana was careful to lose nothing.
and poured ii back il the bottle. and
had chemically the same thing as before
/ redistilled it, hut that whiskey was
not ut to drink A divorce had taken
place, and II would take another twelve
years to make another marriage.
Raw whiskeys are not fit to drink.
They are not married It takes them
a. least four years and. better, eight
years in the wood. Meanwhile leakage
and storage increase the expense. and at
the end Of eight years that whiskey is
worth many times over what it was
when il was first distilled, On the other
hand. spirits are never a. good a. the
day they were made, The minute You
PIT spirits in 4 barrel they begin to de-
generate.
Dr. Wiley said that the manufacture
Of good and bad, straight and crooked
whiskey differed from the start. In the
first place the spirit makers use the
poorest grade of corn that they can find
on the market. The whislSey manufac-
turer buys the best corn and the highest
grade Of rye that money will bring. DR..
Wiley said that alcohol bears about the
same relation TO whiskey that starch
does to houN and thai distilled water
does To mineral water. No amount 81
chemical skill can convert starch into
flour, nor neutral spirits into whiskey.
The rnsuIt ID hound 10 he 4ofbs..ys k,,t
an imitation, dangerous to health.