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J^omeétic
Gins
BY
E.
J.
DANIELS
of
Baird-Daniels
Co.
New
York
In
tlie
last
ten
years
the
distillation
of
Domestic
Gins
has
taken
very
rapid
strides
in
the
United
States,
and
the
gin
industry
has
done
much
to
con-
vince
the
American
consumer
of
the
fact
that
a
good
honest
prodnct
can
be
manufacturée!
here
as
well
as
in
Europe.
It
is
not
many
years
ago
that
it
was
the
average
Américains
opinion
that
everything
imported
was
good,
and
that
everything
domestic
was
inferior,
but,
thanks
to
the
progressive
spirit
of
the
Ainerican
manufacturer,
this
erroneous
conception
is
grad-
uai
ly
disappearing.
A
multitude
of
sins
were
frequently
cov-
ered
under
an
imported
label,
and
on
this
account
the
firm
with
which
the
writer
is
associated
adoj>ted
several
years
ago
the
motto,
"It
can
be
only
préjudice
that
prefers
foreign
inferiority
to
domestic
superiority.
,,
A
campaign
of
éducation,
with
the
object
in
view^
of
over-
coming
préjudice,
is
of
necessity
a
hard
one.
This
préjudice
has
ofteu
been
warranted,
for
the
old-fashioned
American
désire
for
making
money
quickly
accounts
for
domestic
products
of
in-
ferior
quality
;
however,
thèse
exceptions
merely
make
the
rule.
The
rule
is
that
the
American
manufacturer^
honesty
is
second
to
none.
This,
coupled
with
unexcelled
ingenuity,
lib-
éral
business
ideas
and
great
progressiveness,
créâtes
conditions
for
the
domestic
products
of
which
any
American
can
justly
be
proud.
The
protective
tariff
lias
benefited
domestic
industries,
and
at
the
présent
time
European
manufacturers
are
coming
to
this
country,
building
here
their
plants,
employing
American
labor,
benefiting
their
locality,
enriching
this
country
at
large,
and
confirming
the
formerly
dîsputed
theory
that
meritorious
prod-
ucts
could
be
produced
in
the
new
world
as
well
as
in
the
old.
It
is
strange,
but
true,
that
very
few
people
know
anything
about
Gin.
"Gin
is
made
from
Juniper
berries,"
is
the
gênerai
answer
one
receives
to
the
question
what
Gin
really
is,
and
when
given
the
information
that
Gin
is
distilled
from
grain,
and
that
Juniper
berries
are
only
used
for
flavoring
purposes,
he
is
greatly
surprised.
"Gin"
is
a
dérivation
from
the
word
"Gene-
va,"
and
that
is
the
proper
English
Avord.
"Geneva"
is
derived