In making alcohol, good food is destroyed and made into a substance which is not fit for food, and which produces a great amount of sickness and destroys many lives.

Do you not think it a pity that such great quantities of good corn and other grains should be wasted in this way when they might be employed for a useful purpose?
~15.

The Alcohol Family.~--Scientists tell us that there are several different kinds of alcohol.

Naphtha is a strong-smelling liquid sometimes used by painters to thin their paint and make it dry quickly.
It does not have the same odor as alcohol, but it looks and acts very much like it.

It will burn as alcohol does.