The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-03
DRY STATES TO
BE MADE DRIER
All Shipments of Liquor After
First of Year Must be
Labelled.
new RULING OF GOVERNMENT
Revised Penal Code of United States,
Three Sections of Which Relate
to Liquor Traffic, Effec-
tive on Jan. I.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 3.-Another
phase In the great campaign against
liquor will come to the fore the first
of next month, when thSrevised penal
code of the United States is to be-
come effective. Many of the changes
made in the penal laws by the Six
tieth Congress were of minor interest,
but the section relating to the ship
ment of intoxicating liquors into "dry"
territory contained new legislation,
the result of which will be to make
the United States factor in prose-
cutting violators of the act. In thiclly
settled communities the local author
tiles, as rule, are able to deal effec-
lively with offenders, but in certain
sections OF the South and West where
settlement is sparse, the task is not
gress from those sections insisted that
the federal government should come to
the aid of the local authorities.
Three sections of the new codihca-
tion relate to the liquor traffic. The
most important provision is that on
and after January 1 every shipment of
Intoxicating liquor shall. bear the name
of the consignee, the nature of the
contents of the receptacle and the
quantity contained therein. 1t Is
notorious fact, so say persons who
have had experience i'm Attempting to
drive out blind tigers" that practi-
cally all the liquor now shipped into
prohibited territory Is labelled as some
other commodity, or not labelled at all.
and frequently addressed to persons
o'her than the consignee.
The federal authorities already have
sent out notice to all manufacturers
of in>oxicants that their wares must
be labelled on the outside of the pack
age on and after the first of the new
year. setting forth the nature of the
contents and the exact amount in each
package. IL is believed that IL the To-
cal authorities cooperate with the fed
eral government i'm the enforcement OF
the law 1t will be comparatively easy
matter to suppress the "blind tigers"
1t is pointed out that from now on
they cannot exist without violating the
federal statute. and the assumption of
the Department of Justice Is that
would-be violators will not care to
take the chance OF falling into the
clutches OF the federal courts.
10 has been alleged from time to
time that in some of the States where
the sale of intoxicating liquor has been
prohibited in one way or another the
railroads and express companies as
sisted the violators of the law by act
ing as buying or selling agents. or
both. Congress, with the idea of putt
ing a stop to this practice. provided as
follows: "Any railroad company, ex-
press company, or other common car
rier, or any other person who. i'm con-
ncction with the transportation of any
spirituous, vinous matted, fermented,
or other intoxicating liquor of any
kind from one state, territory or dis
trict of the United States, into any
State, Territory or District of the Unit |
ed States or from any foreign country |
into any state, Territory. or District
of the United States, shall collect the |