The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21

ket will be r1Q at once ana YoT0voT OF the ltfeless fire water known as rec tified spirits and also of young straight ,whiskies that are saturated with fusel oil.
 With such a law in existence it would not pay at all to make low 10 years old, and upwards would be pure and wholesome as a medicine Pure old liquors would be SO high priced that they would be used by the rich classes and not at an by the others. I have heard the objection raised to my plan. that it would de- prive the poor man of his 10-cent glass of whiskey. We'll the poor
 man is now under present conditions allowed to freely poison himself with
 ed to save him.
 It is really the poor peoples cause that I am pleading, the rich can us fually take care of themselves. It is and sue the low grade poisonous li-
 quors that are the bane of busi-
 ness that if rightly conducted, would
 be a great blessing to mankind.
 The book upon the contents of,
 ion is entitled "A Plot Against the
 People," It purports to give a his-
 tory of g. bitter contest carried on for
 years between two powerful rival fac-
 tions in the whiskey business. each
 faction fighting tooth and nail for it's
 own side without the slightest fe-
 gard for the peoples interest in the
 outcome. Both sides to this contro-
 versy are radically wrong. One side
 fled spirits is the proper thing to use
 as whiskey. The other; side to this
 controversy maintains .stoutly that
 straight whiskey four years old is all
 a plague on both their houses '' both are wrong. There can be no good excuse for using ractjfied spirits and calling it whiskey. On the other hand straight whiskey four years old is rank poison because of the pres ence of fusel oil in all straight Whis- kies at that age.
 A glance through this book shows the utter helplessness of the class of men who take rank as analytical the practical subject of whiskey. One of those experts who testified in this l investigation into the subject of whis- kies instituted by President Taft stat ed that the characteristic flavor of
 straight whiskey is derived from the charred barrel. This claim is not 1 correct to put it mildly. A woody flavor ruins whfskey as 8 commercial
 article. The. delicious flavor in :an oil into whichs the fusel oil has been chemically changed by the action of
 the oxygen in the atmosphere. There is not a species of wood grown on this globe that could impart
 the flavor met with in old whiskey. Neither can drugs perform this ser- vice. I will offer this pieice of ad- vice gratis to any one who may think 1t worth his while to take notice of it. Place quantity of well made whiskey just, as it passes the still and before ever 1t touches wood in glass receptacle with a wide open ing at the top to be left open except that thin cloth shall cover it to keep
 out dust. To facilitate matters this whiskey ought to be violently agitat- aed once every day for 12 years. If thus treated I will stake my non-ex- pert reputationn on the issue that
 whiskey treated in this way will have the delicious flavor that is charac- teristic of all well made straight whiskies when they are old.
 we'll nor necessary if some other way of caring for it can be devised which will give the air free access to it. And in any event no wood, except oak can at all be used for storing
 whiskey. Other woods would uttera ly ruin the flavor of whiskey. It is
 to prevent the oaken wood from im-
 woody flavor that the barrels are
 charred inside here in the United
 States whiskey barrels are not charred in any other country. Char coal does not color the whiskey It is the tannin in the oak that does the coloring.
 In conclusion, gentlemen, you have whiskey controversy entitled "A Plot Against the People," I trust that we will be found in accord on this im- 1 portant subject