Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — WHISKY’S DEMISE ON SEPT. 8 [ARTICLE]

WHISKY’S DEMISE ON SEPT. 8

Hoover Rules Distilleries Must Shut Down Next Month. Washington. Aug. 57, —Whisky making in the United States dies at eleven o’clock Saturday evening, Septembers. The food administration ruled that after that hour no foods, food materials or feeds shall be used in the production of distilled liquors, for beverages purposes. At. that hour the long, hard-fought battle against the manufacture of whisky will have been won, and for the period of the war at least, distillers of spirits will be removed from the list of consumers of the nation’s food supply. The yvhisky makers fought to the last ditch and lost. They sought by every stretch of technical interpretation of the law to secure a 24-hour period ,of distillation beyond that allowed by last night’s ruling. ’They wanted to continue to make whisky up to the last possible minute and they sought to work through Sunday, September 9,. in order to take advantage of the limit of the law.