Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — BLENDED STUFF IS WHISKY [ARTICLE]

BLENDED STUFF IS WHISKY

Solicitor General Bowers’ Opinion Is Against “Straight” Goods. Washington, June B.—Whisky in the legal meaning of the word is whisky even when colored or flavoring matter is added, according to an opinion rendered to President Taft by Lloyd W. Bowers, solicitor general of the United States. Bowers holds that as such coloring and flavoring have been in all the history of whisky, such addition cannot be illegal or incompatible with the name whisky. The decision is not the final word in the case.