The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-03-07
oEnATuRED ALCOHOL.
Farmers Msy Make Il Future Fuel OF
the West
BY Fred w. Lewis. Secretary Washington ST.
Granze TumWeter. Xash.

By Fred W. Lewis. Secretary Washington Stats
Grange, Tumweter. Wash
Two years ago the Grange, assist
ed by some other organizations, went
to work to try and pass a law that
would allow alcohol to be manufac-
tured and used for light and fuel.
without having to pay the prohibi-
tire revenue tax, that had been re-
quired by the government, so as to
free the people of the country from
the tyranny of the Standard Oil Co.,
which has gradually raised the price
OF fuel oil from a low price to an
amount that is paying the monopoly
extremely large dividends, thereby
levyIng an unreasonable tax on the
consumer of the products Of petro-
leum.
After a long and hard fight in
congress In which the Standard Oil
Company did their best to prevent
the passage of the bill. we conquered
aad now a farmer, or several of them
may erect still, and make alcohol
In any quantities, the same to be de-
natured, OF poisoned. by officers ap-
pointed by the government, and may
then be used or sold to any one I'M
| der a permit which may be obtained
| from the government
II Is now our duty to get the APP
planes for the use OF the product
| into general use, so that there will
be a demand for the alcohol. so that
there will be distilleries installed all
over the west, so as to use the waste
products of our farms to make fuel
for our engines, stoves, both heating
and cooking, and to give us one OF
the best lights that you ever saw
II wish that 1t were possible for me
to show the lamp with its beautiful
light. SO that you could realize the
value of 1t as light producing fuel
wherever | have demonstrated th'
light, 1t has met with an enthusias
tic reception and it Is only ques
ton of letting people see the value
of de-natured alcohol, to insure ;
: demand that will fill our land Will
: dIstillerfes, making our own fuel on
of the small potatoes, sproute'
I wheat, small, and imperfect apples
, and fruit of other varieties, and II
fact, anything that Is composed o
sugar or starch.
A corn-field, with its stalks file
with sweetness, will make larg
quantities of alcohol, and a small
i fuel to keep our homes well heate
q and lighted for the year.
Another good quality of this a.
cohol is that It is perfectly clean an
healthful. There is no dust, smoke
SCOT. or gas, developed In the burr
ing of It for either light or hea
} and 1t does not vitiate the air in til
I. room, as It contains oxygen, In itsel
- horr 10
Z out of the air in the room, SO niue
as any other fuel.
There is no wick-tfimming to
done, as the wick Is never on fir
r and as far as smoke is concerned
. the lamp chimneys will never nee
any washing, so the lamps are muc
easier to take care Of
You can turn it of until there Is
ie very small light, and so makes a pc
u feet night lamp, as there is no ga
as there is from a kerosene lam
d to make the bed room a hot-bed
disease.
There is another great boon to Il
n housewife in the alcohol flat-iro
n which will burn only about a cent
worth of fuel, rather than ten or II
teen cents worth as when you ha'
to use a stove of any sort. You c.
Z take this flatiron into any room
% the house, out onto the porch, o
under a shade tree. or anywhere ell
10 that you want to. as you have
string" attached to you as In q
electric iron, and you do not have
Ii travel back and forth between 4
ironing board and the stove, as "
have always had to do, nor do "
,es have to stand near hot stove viii
a. you are doing your ironing
p Write to me and l will tell y
how you may procure these splend
improvements, as the Grange Is a
xious to get people to know Of t
advantages to be derived from t
- introduction of denaturec alcohol