A Few Facts About Whisky

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

A Few Facts About Whisky.

ONE bushel of the best corn will only make three gallons of whisky; but a little strychnine easily raises the quantity to four gallons. This is so universally practiced that four gallons is now an average yield. One drug house in London, in 1867, sold more strychnine to a liquor house than the whole city could use medicinally. Mark the progress in evil. A distiller adds one-fourth by the use of strychnine. The wholesaler takes this adulterated stock, and doubles it by the use of stramonium and opium. The retailer gives it another turn. He doubles it again by the use of belladonna. This brings ten cents a drink, and here is the motive power. This is the practice all over the land.—Dr. Fowler.