The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-04-10
pENAIuRED ALCOHOL.
Farmers May Make Il Future Fuel OF
the West.


By Fred W. Lewis. Secretary Washington State
i Grange. Tumwater, Wash.
Two years ago the Grange, assist
ed by some other organizations, went
to work to try and pass 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 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
and now farmer, or several of them
may erect a still, and make alcohol
| in any quantities, the same to be de-
natured, or poisoned, by officers ap-
pointed by the government, and may
| then be used or sold to any one un-
| der a permit which may be obtained
from the government.
1t Is now our duty to get the ap-
| pliances 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.
/ / wish that it were possible for me
| to show the lamp with its beautiful
light, so that you could realize the
value of it as light producing fuel
Wherever / have demonstrated the
light, 1t has met with an enthusias.
tic reception and it is only a ques-
ton of letting people see the value
of de-natured. alcohol, to insure 9
demand that will fill our land with
dlstilleries, making our own fuel Out
of the small potatoes, sprouteo
wheat, small, and imperfect apples
and fruit of other varieties, and II
fact, anything that is composed Of
sugar or starch.
| A corn-field, with its stalks filled
with sweetness, will make large
quantities Of alcohol and a small
amount of land will raise enough
, fuel to keep our homes we'll heated
and lighted for the year.
Another good quality Of this al
, cohol is that it is perfectly clean anC
healthful. There is no dust, smoke
SCOT or gas, developed in the burn
ing of 1t for either light or heat
and it does not vitiate the air In tn
E room, as it contains oxygen, In itsel
, end does not have to use the oxyge1
, out of the air in the room, so mucl
! as any other fuel
There is no wick-trimming to b
done, as the wick is never on fire
and as far as smoke is concerned
!, the lamp chimneys will never nee
! any washing, so the lamps are muc
s easier to take care OF.
! You can turn it off until there is
: alYery small light, and SO makes a per
sect night lamp, as there isNno gas
ss thare is from. 2 lsaneeo'sss Ia ,''s
4 to make the bed roomsa hot-bed Q
J. Sdisease. *
,, There Is another great doom TO III
!, housewife in the alcohol flat-iroI
which will burn only about cent
worth of fuel, rather than ten or I'll
teen cents worth as when you hay
Ito use stove of any sort. You ca
Is take this flatiron into any room
q the house, out onto the porch, OF
!. under a shade tree, or anywhere els
:. that you want to, as you have n
= String attached to you as In tn
electric iron, and you do not have I
travel back and forth between tn
q ironing board and the stove, as yo
4 lhave always had to do, nor do yo
II have to stand near hot stove Will
n Iyou are doing your ironing.
N Write to me and l will tell yo
q how you may procure these splendi
- improvements, as the Grange is a.
- xious to get people to know OF II
80 advantages to be derived from II
20 introduction of denatured alcohol
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