“From the tramp’s _glass_ of beer, through the sot’s _glass_ of rum, _jorum_ of whiskey, or _pull_ of gin, up to the merchant’s madeira or sherry and the millionaire’s _goblet_ of champagne, we have shown them all to be, not what the drinker supposes—and that were bad enough in all conscience—but _universally drugged_, most frequently _poisoned_, and not in one case of ten thousand containing more than a small percentage of the article the purchaser paid for.” We might multiply authorities, chemical, medical, and purely statistic, on this subject to an indefinite extent, but it would occupy too much space; besides which, reading men are already sufficiently convinced of the facts. Within the last few years such a mass of damning evidence has been put before the public on this subject that the man must be wilfully blind who does not admit adulteration of the most injurious sort to be the rule in all the various branches and phases of the liquor-traffic. One quotation, however, we must make from the pages of the _Dublin Review_, July, 1870, article “Protestant London,” in which the writer suggests something very like our own view, though he seems to have an idea that the wholesale adulteration was, in England, confined to fermented liquors, which is indeed a grave mistake, whether as regards England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, or in fact any of the countries peculiarly afflicted by this demon of drink. The writer says: “Yet the effects of beer in England are confessedly far worse than those of wine in France. We believe the real explanation of this to be its adulteration. It is by drinking, at first in moderation, adulterated beer that the habit of intoxication becomes a slavery, by which men are afterwards led on to the abuse of gin. There are at this moment thousands of habitual drunkards among us who would never have been drunkards at all, had they not been betrayed into the snare by drinking in moderation adulterated beer—that is, _if the beer sold in public-houses were not universally adulterated_. This evil, at least, law well administered might meet and uproot. Government should _not_ allow men both to _cheat_ and _poison_ their neighbors with impunity.”