Impostors unmasked, and the public protected in the use of popular beverages / by Udolpho Wolfe.

  • Wolfe, Udolpho.
Date:
1859
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    17/18
    ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PUBLIC. # When, impelled by my own convictions, and the absolute neces- sities of the case, I introduced my Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps into the market, in order to banish, if possible, the spurious com- pounds sold under the name of Gin, by the unprincipled dealers and tricksters of the day, I was assailed by every epithet which ingenuity could devise, or malignity invent. My article was pro- nounced to be an imposition—a home manufacture under the guise of a foreign importation. Combination after combination among the mixers, jobbers, and adulterators of liquors were formed, to drive the Schiedam Schnapps out of our liquor markets, and to destroy the then present and future business prospects of its pro- prietor. Under this apparently overwhelming cloud of calumny, false- hood, and nialice, firm in my convictions, and supported by the conscious rectitude of my intentions, I stood unmoved by the clamor of my enemies; my course was onward; I pursued it with- out deviating to the left or the right; my importations through the Custom-house soon silenced the charge of home manufacture; and the united testimony of our medical faculty through the length and breadth of the country, clergymen, and chemists, quickly established the reputation of the Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps as a pure importation of genuine alcohol, deprived, by an expensive chemical process, in Schiedam, of every hurtful or noxious element. The rapid and extensive sale of the Schnapps over every sec- tion of the States, unparalleled in the histories of any similar com- mercial enterprise, now excited the alarm and fears of the base adulterators in the liquor trade. Calumny had ceased to effect their object; the article was stamped with the seal of universal public approbation ; to vilify could no longer answer any beneficial purpose to its enemies; but the suggestions of avarice immediate- ly prompted a more lucrative operation—that of imitating the Schnapps, the forging its labels and bottles, its envelopes and cer- tificates—and thus reaping the benefits arising from the sale of an article which their imited efforts were impotent to destroy. Those imitations are still almost without number, but they must gradually disappear under the safeguards with which I have sur- rounded the Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps, and the necessary public caution. I am about to commence, at the request of my friends, the sale of ALL IMPORTED LIQUORS AND WINES, on the same plan as that which I have adopted in the sale of the Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps. They will be forwarded to the order of physicians, apothecaries, druggists, and private citizens, in every part of the Union, in portable and convenient quantities, direct from my own cellar, and at the lowest market prices for which they can possibly be supplied.