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Show o M WHISKEY VS. SPIRITS., , HI Dr. Harvey V. Wiley, of pure food HH fame, was before a congressional HJj committee a few days ago reciting the HH difFcrcnce between whiskey and HH HH According to the ttstimony of the HH scientist, whiskey is a distillate from J 1 1 the fermented mash of malt and eun- , tatns all the congeneric, producfMl formcdwith ethyl alcohal during thel fermentation that aic volatile; .during the temperature of dtsttllatiOiiJlCK 1 " Dr. Wiley thinks mobTpf jwjjjwliis- t .key sold at retail should no'CxYcn be j 1 11 "' v 9 called blendal, fdr this stuff isjthqnn- i tithesis Of straght':whiskylW'bltght1 "crooked" whiskey, f&ihAf ifofiiiiig" but an imitation. It is nothing whatever what-ever but neutral spirits colored and tlavoied. He prbnounces a drink like that poison, -pu reran d simple. rlts cf- feet on the body is l coagulate the protoplasms and cause old age. But those .who argue for, absolute prohibition for the manufacture and, sale of alehollic bcvoiagcs will gel little consolation from this statement, although Dr. Wiley, stopped, right there it would have been a great argument ar-gument to make from , platform, because be-cause all men fear old age. The doctor continued: As long as a man can keep cells limpid and keep his protoplasms limpid, limp-id, he will never grow old. Alcohol, absolutely coagulates the protoplasm tlc moment it touches it, but the al-f cnhol that is in the whisky nr bran-fly bran-fly or rum, is so mingled by nature's operations, that it is an entirely different dif-ferent proposition.' f For instance,-you take ordinary field corn aiti! put 1 sugar su-gar in it, more than s-wectr corn ha v and it docsndt taste like tweet cum.-It cum.-It is not sweet coni Nature -has-si way of combiiiing the elements iin foods which man caUnot imitate, and therefore when nature produces-twenty produces-twenty different substances, itf s,he docs every time a whiskey is1 fermented, ferment-ed, and all twenty of them come over in the still, alcohol among thcm.ithcn you put these natural elements away to become 'mellow', to marry (as the distiller says), which takes years to accomplishit is a Jong drawn ,out ccremonyr-'you make a 1 beverage which is a tonic audi tvlioUsouic and healthful and non-poisoiiQin. There, is all the difference nn the world , bet-, ween a drink of straight, alcohol ami. a drink of whiskey, brandy, pr.rvmi.. Having made this important declaration, declar-ation, the doctor1 was' questioned- by one of the congressman. " " " Doctor," said 'flie'm'cmbcr, ''when you see a man drunk,' can you tell what sort of whisky he' got drunk on?" ' " ' ' "My exper' iccwith dumkeu men is very limited," was the reply, 'but I have the, evidence ,of experts which lmv brvond doubt that when a man gets (hunk 011 &pirts, he i ciay ygcs it uot VlcpnSIifetVcm- -perament of thc Individuals , asked Knother one'6f .the representatives, w 1W"K C f" y it it l n MBlniay'jJbc, I)ccise.iri3upposeil'(a ticalgcntlmanrOifld'iotrlnkftj The moral to this tale, if moral there be is: ' Don'tJdriiiftunleK ybii drink whis- kjv-alid-be sur..tliat you atcL'gctliug the-proper dope St-ite Journal. |