Show A PRODUCT OF alcoholism WHILE whisky is struggling with such phenomenal phenomena energy and success through the medium of politics and trusts it is not forgetting that the press is something to be considered in the acquirement of fame and influence it has evidently determined that along with other great human concern mente ments it needs a literature to make it a perfect and complete institution of the nineteenth century through the enterprise of a new york daily a sample of its efforts in this direction has just been re pro d it is a little old and we have seen it before but its striking audacity will justify a reprint oun thanksgiving we thank thee 0 lord for the spirit of f independence which thou haat bast infused 0 into our veins we thank thee for having kept our enemies at bay teach them 0 lord that the calumet is built like unto a buzz saw and will cut in either direction if tampered with we are also thankful for thy great goodness in permitting the calumet to produce goods that have no equal in the he market it is in indeed a weapon that is powerful and invincible I 1 we further thank thee for the bountiful trade thou hast haat showered upon us we have been a favored child and are humbly proud in our just pride we promise thee 0 lord in the future to care for that trade with ith even greater diligence then than in the past and keep them arom rom all harm trusts or otherwise with bowed heads and full hearts we thank thee CALUMET distilling co the authorship of this ribald document will uever never be contested whisky did not need to sign it for whisky has bag an stamp on every line which could not fiall fail of universal recognition there is a display in it of insolence indecency and d blasphemy which no other institution would think of pilfering or imitating its brazen tone is so characteristic of its author that the odor of alcohol seems to pervade the paper it to is printed on |