CHEATING by J. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 16, 1876

CHEATING

By J. Clarke

CHEATING is the great weakness and crime of this age. Everywhere, in every department of trade, we find trashy compounds which pass for genuine. Paste and paper and polish pass for solid leather; and sweepings and trash are made into shining cloth. Sugar and molasses are made from the chemicals on the shelves of the druggist. Whisky is coaxed from rye, stimulated by strychnine; and then it is multiplied by the use of tobacco and other articles, as it is passed around—each one has an art out of his trade—until it is a conglomerate of poisons.

Coffee and tea are mixed with foreign substances until they become nauseating; milk is mixed with water and chalk; shoes are fastened together with glue; leather is tanned by steam, and often ruined by the process. Space forbids extending this list to a great length; but I will notice a new discovery—a process for the manufacture of butter for less than four cents per pound, so say the manufacturers. The coloring matter is from $2.50 to $3.50 per can. A circular has been sent to me by the said company, who offer to enrich their patrons by the use of their golden-butter compound. After reading their prospectus one would judge that Revelation 14:8 includes not only the church, but also the world in the great moral fall there described.

J. CLARKE.