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a certain quantity of whiskey. Nancy Taggs." I wrote to 

 a personal friend of mine, and received this reply : "There 

 is an old lady by the name of Nancy Taggs in the almshouse, 

 and of course they furnish whiskey to the inmates." He 

 found this lady reasonably health}^ in body and mind, and not 

 knowing her exact age ; of course women don't tell that, 

 even at that advanced period of life. When he asked her 

 about the kind of whiskey she had been drinking, she seemed 

 very much interested. She said, " I never touched a drop 

 of wliiskey in my life, of any kind." 



Since then I found two other advertisements, one one 

 hundred and three and one one hundred and five years old, 

 similar to that, in different localities, of the same brand of 

 whiskey. I have written for information in regard to those, 

 which will be probably of the same kind. The ways of the 

 advertiser are devious. 



This country is being crushed by the press, in their pub- 

 lishing stories and advertisements absolutely fraudulent in 

 character. Since the 1st of January, through our instiga- 

 tion, the post ojQSce has issued fraud orders against over fifty 

 of these advertisements, prohibiting circulation. 



Just the other day my name was used in an advertisement 

 fraudulently. When I w^rote to the firm, they told me they 

 would attend to their affairs, and allow me to attend to mine. 

 Whereupon I issued a fraud order against them, and cited 

 this man to appear before the authorities, which he did last 

 Friday morning, and after a hearing, lasting about ten min- 

 utes, the fraud order was issued, and all papers and circu- 

 lars hereafter excluded from the mails. They were making 

 me say a thing I never said, and wouldn't be implicated as 

 saying. 



But the distilled liquors which we drink are something 

 awful, — that is, to drink them. I don't suppose any are 

 drunk here, but those who do drink them find that the 

 old-fashioned whiskey has disappeared practically from the 

 trade. If a physician orders whiskey for you as his patient, 

 you don't get whiskej^ ; it never has been whiskey, and 

 never will be, — you get the thing that is called whiskey. 



