The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21

minated grain malt and stored in wood above the ground for at e least st be used by human beings until it has been in good storage for at least ten years. Whiskey made and treated in the way indicated here will be pure, wholesome and nutritious. On the contrary rectified spirits do not con- tain any food matter whatever. This it's is odorless and therefore is not whiskey at all
 Rectifed spirits are as valuable and as good to use when they are twelve hours made as they could pos- sibly be if they were twelve years made. Rectified spirits are obtained from young corn whiskey distilled ov- CT an intensely hot fire. The in tense heat under the pot of the still produces great yield at the expense of quality. About five gallons and a quart of spirit is obtained from a bushel of Indian corn.
 In the crude state this spirit costs about 10 cents per gallon at 100 per cent. proof. This spirit when distill- ed is so nauseous that to properly de- scribe it's objectionable character t will be necessary to use the objection able word stink to do it justice. This grain product called whiskey can- not grow fine by the ageing process, so it is never aged. 1t goes into imme- diate consumption. The manufac- turers and vendors of this objection able stuff prepare it for use by sep arating and removing from the pure spirit called othel alcohol. The bad smelling alcohols called aldehyde al- cohol, butylic alcohol, amylic alcohol, and furfural which pass under the blanket expression of fusel oil.
 Fussel oil is a rank irritant poison The same forces of nature which ere atate pure spirit in the process of fermentation create the poison alco- hols called fusel oil. Fusel oil, there fore is always present in young whis- key even when it has been we'll made and further, fusel oil must be left ir all we'll made whiskies and jet moth. CT nature deal with it.
 Young. well made whiskies ought tl be always stored in wood above the ground, the higher up the better Spirit has an affinity for water and will attract moisture in damp place On the contrary. in dry storage the air has greater affinity for water than air draws the water out of the bar rel through the pores of the wood The air goes into the barrel through the same pores, through which the water came out. The oxygen in the air coming in contact with the fuse rel vacated by the water decomposes and chemically changes it into essen tial oils and others.
 To make this change complete will under ordinary conditions, which means whiskey lying quietly, require 12 years time. The poison oils in young whiskey are contained in min s~, ous agitation of young whiskies breaks up the globules which contain those poisonous oils and frees them they being volatile, and they reach the surface of the liquid quickly where they come in contact with the air and are rendered harmless at once. In this way the maturation of whiskey can be hastened. This ex- plains why the claim is made that taking whiskey in ship over the ocean improves it.
 We'll, the claim is we'll founded, but it may be injured by agitation, be- cause such agitation tends to free and exhaust the delicious aroma which is always present in well-made old whiskey. This reasoning does not apply to rectif1ed spirits. Rectified spirit is s,af a nfeless, ;s sterilized spirit prove if left to itself. It is not even by courtesy called whiskey until there is real or straight whiskey mix ed with it. When this mixing of rec tified spirits and straight whiskey is accomplished, there might be only one gallon of real whiskey put in a barrel with 46 gallons of rectified spirits, yet the artist who does this mixing in these proportions is allowed under President Taft's decision to call this nondescript compound whiskey This is the condition in the whiskey business which President Roosevelt Doctor Wiley and Attorney General Bonaparte labored to prevent, and did for a time prevent. But at present rectifed spirits, chicanery and cor rupt politics are in the saddle. The people have to take the consequences The market is inundated with recti- fled whiskies, and poorly made young straight whiskies, that are not fit for a human being to use. Our government stands idly by and fails to give advice or information to the people regarding the poisonous char acter of the young spirits with which the market is flooded. yet our govern liquor business since 1863 up to last June 100000.
 These figures would indicate that the government of the United States could we'll afford to take the trouble to keep the people informed regard Ing IIldltSI tI1dt OI VXCdl lmDOCI- ance to them. It is safe to say that there is no subject in the world that concerns the human race so intimate lyl as does the use of liquors, about which they live in such utter ignor- ance.
 I contend that the government o1 the United States, owing to it's rela- ton to the people, and the fact that it collects from the business an enor. nous amount of money, should give the people correct information and instruction regarding the character and use of liquors. The people owe it to themselves to make a peremp- tory demand on the congress of the United States to pass a law fixing the time for the government to collect taxes or liquors not before they have been 10 years made. and forbid for eign liquors entering the United States until they are accompanied by certificates from their respective gov ernments. that they were made 1C years before being shipped. If this course shall he followed out, the mar.