The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-30
NOSE PAINT MUST BE PURE.
Pure Food and Drug Act becomes
Effective July |.

Washington, June 30.--After to- !
day, all brands of nose paint sold |
within the confines of the United /
States must BE correctly labeled, In !
accordance with rules and specifica- |
tons promulgated by the interna-
tonal revenue department. These |
regulations, which become effective !
tomorrow, have been harmonized |
with the provisions of the pure food |
and drug act, with the result that |
country are al In arms and declare !
that they will appeal to the courts |
for relief from the obnoxious rul- |
ings. |
SO far as the trade is concerned. |
the most important feature of the
ruling in this connection is the fact
that hereafter labels must appear
without the addition of any adject-
i've or descriptive word" This elimi-
mates rye and Bourbon which
| heretofore have been used to des
] SllbC tic hjIiu VI WulShty.
Heretofore all whiskey. whether
blended, artificially colored or aged
or mixed with other sprtis,, has been
marked "whiskey" on the barrels
as they have been filled and shipped
! from the distilleries and places of
rectifcation.
Hereafter what is known as
straight whiskey," that is an article
! that has been aged by time and not
mixed with other spirits, will be
marked 'whiskey' and only that
Blepded or compounded whiskey will
be- marked on the barrel in letters
at least one inch long burned into
the barrel, blended whiskey"
A mixture of whiskey with alcohol,
provided there is enough potable
spirits to make real compound, and
not the semblance of such spirits,
with the distillant with which it is
mixed,
Alcohol, commercial alcohol, or
high wines which have been manipu
lated by the aids OF artificial flavors,
colors or extracts, or otherwise, so
as to resemble some particular kind
of potable spirits will be marked
with the name of such spirits, pre-
coded with the word Imitation.
| What a revolution this viii make
in the business of rectifying or
blending whiskey may be imagined
when it is recalled that most of the
whiskey now sold is compounded
blended or initiated within the
meaning OF the pure food act, and
that after today none of these prod
ucts can leave the place of manu-
( facture without carrying mark
which will indicate to the average
7 mind that the spirits are some in
ferior article
so tar as theconsumer is concerned
| the most important section of the
rule demands the use of the word
Imitation" to describe the more or
less poisonous fluids that are passed
Off as whiskey by the INSCRIPTIONS
Such fire water" has a base of al
cohol, or, more frequently, com
: mercial alcohol still laden with
poisons of distillation, or even "high
Wines the first products of distil-
lation and unfit for human con-
sumption. Any or all of those in
combination is manipulated by the
aid of artificial flavors, colors, ex-
tracts or otherwise to have the ap-
= pearance. at least, of recognized
beverage. Every possible effort was
l made in the drafting of the pure
food and drug act to suppress these
connections, and the effort had the
hearty Endorsement of the trade al
. large.
!. AS the law itself has utterly failed
. to proven INSCRIPTIONS concerns
. from put e these poisons on the
. market, us feared that further
/ ruling by Athe internal revenue de
!. partment Mil likewise fail. There il
: no explicit language in the law tt
: regulate the quantities of ingredi
4 ents which shall distinguish a "com
pound. The most poisonous ming
ling" of high wines,'' red pepper
e burnt sugar and other trash, which
t in the spirit OF the ruling should BIZ