The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

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burned on the inside. Then they put
the government seal on 1t and put II
in tho warehouse. The government
doesn't allow them to keep 1t there
longer than eight years, and II
takes forty-eight hours for the
charred barrels TO change the
when you buy it in the bottle. And
there are lot OF men in the United
States who go to the United States
| government and by paying one hun
drcd dollars a year tar, they can go
to dstillery and pay the one dol
Lar and ten cents government tax on
gallon OF whiskey and then take
that whiskey from the bonded fare
house over to recufytnE establish
ment. and they can mix. blend.
sweetcn. add oils and all sorts of
things like that and then put 1t up
in bottles with fine labels on them
and sell It under high-sounding
namea- A hundred dollars Of your
money gives you the privilege of do
ing that, until eighty per cent of
the whtskey you buy on the market
all, not q particle.
! Now here are some figures. There
are nfty-stx pounds In a bushel OF
corn From that fifty-six pounds, the
| dtstillers take what In equal to about
thtrty-f1ve. From that they extract
water. equal to twelve. From that
| they make the liquor. Four and a
half gallons OF whiskey out of a
bushel OF corn They can make as
much more. but the government law
requires that.
| Now. let's sec. Every distillery
keeps cattle and hogs on hand to
| feed ON the waste matter. Eighty per
cent of the food value OF the corn is
used in making whiskey and the other
is fed to the cattle and hogs and
! they are then put on the market
| Distillery fed cattle and hogs COM
nand lower price than dry fed cat
tie and hogs- Hence. the farmer hes
/ got to sell his cattle and hogs for
lower prices to compete. The farm
| er. for his own protection, goes to the
distillery and buys this stuff to iced
| to his cattle and hogs and when you
take the amount Of money. my
friends. that they pay the distincries
! for this refuse matter and then you
add to that the difference in price for
which the farmer has TO sell his dry
| fed cattle and hogs to compete with
+, the distillery. I will be horn-swoggled
| II that gang doesn't pick his pockets
of ten million dollars more than the -
paid him for the original corn. 10
( Al@hc ZIG &lull Out Vi 70 hSEAu WltI.
| Wait Minute!
! Wait a minute. / will see If il LIS "A
] good proposition. Here am, a
| farmer. and drive up to a distillery
and l cell n bushel OF corn, I've got
his dollar. He takes my bushel OF
corn He makes four and one-half
gallons OF whisksy out OF it. See II
1t is paying proposition.
Out of that thirty-six pintE. four
and one-half gallons thirty-six pints.
see how you will come out A fell
low, young tough, got up, in Chi
cago, one morning and went across
to an open saloon. He drank and
drank until the loon-keeper re-
fused to give him any more booze
without money. He swore he'd have
more booze and he walked of. His
mother pied with him but he spit In
her face. His sister came and he
her face and Knocked her to the side
walk. A man, who had known hin,
since he was a baby, came out and
added his entreaties to the mothers
and sisters He whirled around and
, sent two bullets crashing through the
man.
He was sentenced to life in the pen
stentiary at Joliet and when his old
mother heard the sentence pro-
nounced In the criminal court build
ing in Chicago. she threw her hands
to her head. screamed and fell dead
at his feet.
That's one pint
You've got dollar for your bushel
Of corn. He made thirty-six pints
!. out OF that. Now, in Freeport. I'M
nois. where 7 preached, a young fel-
low had been down to a house OF III
fame, got into a quarrel with a gang
, and threatened to clean the bunch
out He went back home and got his
revolver and started down the street
He met woman on Stevenson
street. opposite the court house, with
, a little girl. and he shot her. The
woman fell to the sidewalk with hei
> child In her arms. He was arrested
tried and convicted. In sentencing
him. the judge made these remarks
You arc the seventh young mar
l have sentenced in this court room
to the penitentiary at Joliet for life In
the past two years who has com
fiuence of drink"
] viii take up another instance
Down in Anderson, Ind. a young fell
low went into q saloon, got drunk. hi,
money was gone and no wanted more
money. He went home and demand
ed money from his mother. Che
: wouldn't give it to him. She wa.
y
He took a stick of stove wood. hi
/ her on the head and knocked her te
: the floor. Then he pounded hel
; body and head to IL pulp. He tool
of her necklace, from around hel
. neck. took the diamonds from hel
ears. slipped her rinRs from her fing
! ers and went and gave them to q
prostitute In the house of III fame
, He then got on the interurban and
went out to Fort Wayne. The Off
GERS got track Of him, he was ar.
rested and brought back and Judge
Mcclure sentenced him to the peni.
Tertiary at Michigan City, fog life.
Went TO Springfield.
l went to Springfield. Illinois. te
hold series Of meetings and q
great. big. burly fellow, Joe James
went down the street cursing ant
fiourishtng a gun and a razor. He
, saw gate open. he went in and 9
girl seventeen years of age was cook.
ing her fathers dinner, who was
spading out in the garden. 'sf--~4
t He seized the girl and sought tc
outrage the sacrednesS OF woman
hood. She screamed and her father
ran to see what was the matter. but
the buriy negro jumped up and
grabbed him and with one swoop OF
J TINT razor ho ssttf hiu had fron~ his