Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1917 — No More Whiskey After September 8th. [ARTICLE]

No More Whiskey After September 8th.

Whiskey, long the curse of the nation and something that has no rightful place in a civilized nation, is to be a thing of the past. Whiskey making will die at 11 o’clock on the night of Saturday, September 8. The food administration has ruled that after that hour no foods, food materials, or feeds shall be used in the production of distilled liquors, for beverage purposes. At that hour the longfought battle against the manufacture of whiskey will have been won, and for the period of the war at least, distillers of spirits will be removed from the consumers of the nation’s food supply. The whiskey makers fought to the last ditch and lost. They sought by every stretch of technical interpretation of the law to secure a twentyfour hour period of distillation beyond that allowed by the food board.