Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1920 — SCOTCH GO WILD ON U. S. RYE [ARTICLE]

SCOTCH GO WILD ON U. S. RYE

Constable Says Late Booze Importations Are of the “Shock” Variety. Greenock, Scotland. —American rye whisky now being imported into this country is said to be of the “shock” variety by the chief constable here, who has filed a report on the subject. The effects of prewar whisky, he says, even when it has been bonded for three years before being sold at retail, was nothing in character to those of some of the present-day whiskies, which only recently made their appearance here. “Whatever their composition is," the officer declares, “their effects are terrible. They not only poison, but madden. and leave persons nervous and depressed after the intoxicating effects have passed away.” These whiskies are known locally as “snake-bite.”