Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — FRENCH BAR LIQUOR [ARTICLE]

FRENCH BAR LIQUOR

TOTAL PROHIBITION DECIDED UPON BY GOVERNMENT. Consumption of Whisky, Brandy and All Other Alcoholic Beverages Will Be Prohibited by Law. Paris, Dec. 15. —Total prohibition throughout France of the consumption of such alcoholic beverages as whiskies, brandies and liquors has been decided on by the government. Thia is shown by the text ip the Journal Offlciel of Premier Briand’s declaration before the chamber of deputies on the subject. The premier said: “The government will ask you tc give it the faculty of solving by decrees all questions of interest in regard to the national defense which the laws are too slow to regulate. A particularly grave question which can be regulated only in war time, the solution of which involves the life of the country and its salvation, is the total suppression of the consumption of alcohol.”

The premier’s remarks were greeted with loud applause from many of the benches. Deputy Mayeras interjected; “In the army. also?” “Yes, in the entire country.” said the premier. ■ / ■ The use of the term alcohol in this connection is understood in France to include such beverages as absinthe, which already has been suppressed; whiskies, brandies and liquors, but not wines or beers.