DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18357, 2 June 1917, Page 4

DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?

—-t \ la a localoty "dry" when it- pro' ihibite .the eale of straight whisky, • but allows it when flavoured with plant' extracts And; denominate'l ! ' '/bitters' "I This query has be'jh -^ mad.© prominent by 'various news items, of wl^ch .the following 1, fmin 1. the " Baltimiore 'Sun,' is a fair specimen:—; Danville t (Vu.), .February 28.— So , great 1 has •bloome-the douiiu.ul here for A. oertaJn 1 ■'prop.rietuiy medicine, - which contain^ 25-per cent, alcohol, , that the. ciiy* 1 Police Department has 1 ■' • laid the aondiiion b?Jfore the Pro- • Hbition 'CommiiS'KidTior. As'investic:a- ---' ' tion has U?dvtotht discovery that •iwravg! Saturday and Sunday more 1 ' thaii',7oo pottles were ?o\d in T)a.iwill*! ,' and. '^Schobifield. Tlie police had. t > '- deal with more dmunkaricls th:..s >ve^ '' ' than during the enfre month of January, nndi each man odrnitte 1 that „ . lie 'becam*' infioxcntad , on thu , „ medicine. ■ ' The e-iitor of-th© 'Journal of the .Americaa Association' (diicago) tele- . graphed to the chief of police at Danville, asking for the name of the ;. /inedlicine coiiUiiining 2-5 per oont. of aloohjol, \yjiioh was. reported ifa ba -, " rospcwiaiblo for aeveral cases, of 1 in- . toxioatioi], ■The' reply. nairned a ■ hp'opulair and y/i'iielyiadv©i <tised brand - ' of "'bitters,'*' ,On, which the medical journal commented! thus: 1 ■;' It is a pity that there are no . ;. etsitistios -to phm the change in the ,' volume of *ales of 'patent mcdicinD ■ ■ tonic*' that follows th© enactment . ''of Prohabition law's. . . . -So long •. •»$ individuals can ,«iell iinresitrictedly ■/■preparations coiita'inincr sniall „- amounts lof plant, extwiriiv^. :.n -alcohol'one-half the Ktverogih .of raw / whisky, under the gnv&& of "tonicis-"' prohibition will n-ct. have tlio terrors ;. for csa*tdn, persons it mis Sit otherwise ;. - po«sc«*.' ... . Now Vis a good s t.:irbe fbr the International Revenue .; Depart-meht to turn ifa «t.t-ent:o.n 1n ,«Inps .of remeiiesi that Tni<rli.t brinj? to the Government considerable revenue —the alcoholic "patent, medicine."