Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — CAN’T LIFT LID UNTIL TREATY IS RATIFIED. [ARTICLE]

CAN’T LIFT LID UNTIL TREATY IS RATIFIED.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 30. Although the wag department declared in a statement today that “the accidents of war.and the progress of demobilization are at an end,” war time prohibition cannot be lifted until after the ratification of the peace treaty, in the opinion of Attorney General Palmer. The prohibit! on law provides that it shall remain in force until after the termination of the war and the demobilization of the army. Mr. Palmer has held that the state of war does not end until the peace treaty has been ratified. President Wilson took a similar position in asking congress early in the year to repeal the war time prohibition law in so far as it affected light wines and beer.