Arizona republican., 1914-07-24

grape will serve for all sacramental purposes, and denatured alcohol will answer all purposes of arts and in- dustry No man can name a single use for grain alcohol that cannot be subserved by the use of denatured all cohol, except the single one of a bev- craze.
 The liquor forces will seek to make capital from the alleged fact that drug gists cannot get medicines containing alcohol.
 This is absolutely a mis statement. Druggists will have two methods by which they can secure all the medi- cnes they wish. They have these two methods now, though they may not employ them. one is to purchase from the manufacturer direct. made under the pure food and drug law all tinct- ures and extracts containing alcohol, and the other, and probably the one that will be adopted by most drug gists, is the purchase of specially de- natured alcohol in bulk, admitted freely under the dry amendment. with which every possible use of alcohol will be met, always excepting beverage pur- poses.
 The report of the commissioner of internal revenue of the United States for 1913 covers all features of this sub ject thoroughly. On page s, under the head of "Denatured Alcohor, we find the following: During the past fiscal tIlra 9.S31,65S.54 wine gallons of alcohol and rum There has been very not icable and nearly uniform increase in the demand for this class of spirits; and, as will be noted, the quantity specially denatured about equals the quantity of completely denatured all cohol which, under existing regula- tions. may be sold and used without restriction '. The use of specially Gncompletely) denatured alcohol, how ever is permitted only in the manufac- ture of certain articles or preparations under regulations which require care full supervision on the part of the rev. enue officers. Up to the present time some 20 formulas for specially denat- ured alcohol have been approved for different lines of manufacture, and the quantity denatured under each of these formulas is given in a statement to be found on page 69 of this report.
 The table shows that there were sold and used 4,60S,417.76 gallons of special y denatured alcohol, under the twenty formulas, one formula being 100 gal Ions of ethyl alcohol and gallons of approved wood alcohol" Under this one formula are listed 5S uses, among which are "alkalods and fine chemi- calls chemicals and pharmaceuticals solid and powdered medicinal eX- tracts"
 In other words. the United States government has been encouraging the use of denatured alcohol and has pro- vided 1t for chemists and druggists in a form suitable for every possible use except as a beverage.
 The only difference is that. grain al cohol has to pay revenue tax of $1.10 per gallon and specially denatured al cohol just as pure. pays no tax what ever, and is consequently much cheap CT. AL the present time the wise ones are using this specially denatured al cohol for all preparations while the druggists of Arizona are paying the old price of $500 per gallon for grain alcohol, costing less than 20 cents a gallon to produce, and through them the people are footing the bill.
 In brief, the druggists have not a single peg on which to hang an ob jection to the proposed statewide dry amendment. and the druggist who does so belongs with the vets, and, as he pays no county license, if he sells booze he must bear the aroma Of the blind pig"
 Tine whiskey druggist always sneezes when the saloon-keeper takes snuff.
 c. F. RINEHART.