Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-04-03
DENATURED ALCOHOL.
Farmers Msy Make II Future Fuel OF
the West,
By Fred W. Lewis. Secretary Washington Stats
Grange Tumwater. Wash.

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By Fred W. Lewis Secretary Washington Stat.
Grange. Tumwater. 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 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 a farmer, or several of them
may erect 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 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 1t is only a ques-
tion of letting people see the value
of de-natured alcohol, to insure
demand that will fill our land with
,dlstilleries, making our own fuel out
of the small potatoes, sprouted
wheat, small, and imperfect apples,
and fruit of other varieties, and in
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 well heated
and lighted for the year.
Another good quality Of this al
cohol is that it is perfectly clean and
healthful. There is no dust, smoke,
SCOT, or gas, developed in the burn
ing of it for either light or heat,
and it does not vitiate the air in the
room, as it contains oxygen, in itself
and does not have to use the oxygen
out of the air in the room, SO much
as any other fuel.
There is no wick-trimming to be
done, as the wick Is never on fire,
and as far as smoke is concerned,
the lamp chimneys will never need
any washing, so the lamps are much
easier to take care Of.
You can turn it off until there Is
very small light, and so makes a per-
feet night lamp, as there is no gas,
as there is from a kerosene lamp,
to make the bed room a hot-bed Of
disease.
There is another great boon to the
housewife in the alcohol flat-iron,
which will burn only about cents
worth of fuel, rather than ten or fif-
teen cents worth as when you have
to use a stove of any sort. You can
take this flatiron into any room of
the house, out onto the porch, out
under a shade tree, or anywhere else
that you want to, as you have no
"string" attached to you as in the
electric iron, and you do not have to
travel back and forth between the
ironing board and the stove, as you
have always had to do, nor do you
have to stand near hot stove while
you are doing your ironing.
Write to me and l will tell you
how you may procure these splendid
Improvements, as the Grange is an
xious to get people to know of the
advantages to be derived from the
introduction of denatured alcohol