The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-01
WHAT WHISKY"
MUST Be in N. D.
PROFESSOR LADD IN RECENT
BULLETIN QUOTES THE LAW OF
NORTH DAKOTA WHICH PRO-
HI5ITs WHISKY" UNDER MA
TioNAL LAW IN THE STATE.

The whisky that NAV be sold in
North Dakota by druggists must be
Of better grade than that which may
be sold under the national whisky law,
according to Professor Laid. who has
the following in a recent bulletin
The North Dakota beverage law spe-
officially defines what whisky shall be-
in order to be registered and sold by
the druggists in North Dakota, as fol-
lows:
Whisky is the product derived by
distillation from the properly prepared
and fermented mash of matted sound
cereals, or sound cereals the starch of
which has been hydrolized by malt and
which distillate has been stored in
wood under normal conditions for not
less than four years, and it shall be
labeled true to name"
The law does not, therefore, recog-
,nize, as coming under the class of
whiskey, a product to which there has
been added neutral spirits or cologne
spirits, or which has been coIored so
as to make it appear aged or in imi-
tation Of another product. The law Of
North Dakota recognizes as it's stand
ard abe u. S. Pharmacopoeia,-
only product which may be sold legally
by the druggists. The law recognizes
no differences between whiskey as a
drug and a beverage; and If sold as
beverage it's sale is illegal under
the provision of the state law. 1t is,
therefore, to guard against the sale
Of spurious compounds, adulterated
misbranded products for use as medi-
cines that the beverage laws Of North
Dakota are enacted.
Section 5 Of the beverage law says:
"It shall be unlawful to sell, offer
into the state any o-called compound
or imitation or whiskey, -.
In clauses IL and IL under section
8, the law defines what is meant by
the term ''compound whsskey,, and
limitation whiskey" in the following
language:
r THE terms compound whisky rum
or brandy shall apply to the products
composed of, or prepared from, neutral
spirits and whisky, with or without
color and flavor"
THE terms imitation whisky. >
brandy or rum shall apply to that
product prepared from neutral spirits,
with or without color and flavor"
The product which has, therefore.
been recognized by executive authority
under the national law, that is, "whis-
ky is neutral spirits reduced by water
to the proof Of whisky and artificially
colored," is not to be classed as whisky
and cannot be sold under the laws of
this state. Therefore, a mixture of
substances, other than true whiskies
as defined in the act itself. each of
which WHISTLES must be at least
four years old, and which products
have been properly ripened, aged, and
matured in wood in warehouses heated
under normal conditions, is not recog-
nized as whisky blend. Whistles which
have been subjected to quick aging,
such as excessive heating of ware
houses, or by "bung-hole" heating by
means of coils Of pipes In the barrels,
cannot be legally sold in the state.
The fact that one may perjure him
self In making application for regis
tration and in securing a certificate,
cannot be taken as a justification for
the sale Of any other product than
that which is specifically named and
intended by the act of the legislature.
The incorporation of color in the
whiskey so as to give it the appear
.ance of an older product, other color
than that which is acquired from the
casks during the aging under normal
process, cannot be considered as other
than fraud; and products so treated
and sold are in violation of our state
law.