The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-30

The answer 3 very short aud very
simple. Merchants may sell patent
medicine. or other preparations, put
they cannot lawfully sell patent
medicine, or any other preparation
that can be used as a beverage. con
tanning so much as one hail OF one
per cent OF alcohol IN volume. Nor
can a merchant or other persons
sen a patent medicine or other prep
aration that VIII produce ntoX..c5aa-
lion. There are patent medicines ana
preparations that may be sold by
merchants. that contains more than
one-haif OF one per cent. OF alconol
by volume, but are SO medlcateq
that they cannot he used as a bever-
age, nor a person become intoxicated
by the use thereof. Doubles IN
scrupulcus manufacturers VIII en-
deavor to manufacture preparations
in the gufse of proprietary medicines
and other preparations for the pur-
pose OF being used as beverages, and
for the purpose of producing intoxl-
cation. Merchants must be careful,
and must act at their peril In hand
ling preparations containing alcohol.
The merchant is put upon inquiry,
whether the preparation Is a bever-
age, or can be used as such, and the
amount of alcoh 81 contained n 1t,
and he is upon inquiry as TO whether
such patent medicine, or other prep
aration, that con tains aicobol can be
used as a beverage, and whether Il
will produce .ntoxscation.
When Stock to Be Disposed.
inquiries have Den maze as to
when stock OF liquors must be dis
posed of by, those who are po2, en-
gagged in the business. ard their
fixtures. removed and theeir gns
taken down. The answer to this is
very. short and simple. After June
60, next, it viii be unlawful for any
person now engaged in the Hquor
business to Keep in the state for sale
or store for sale, intox;catinE
liquors. Those now engaged In such
business will be required to have
their liquors out not later than mid
nizlt OF The 30th Gay. or June. tnelr
signs down and places closed and
the business over with. without any
stock left over fer storage or sale.
The question has been asked: Can
a liquor dealer, after tle Spin DAY
of. Juno. ship TO the wholesaler from
whom he purchased liqu:ac. under
an arrangement providing Tor the re-
shipment after the 9th day of June,
at the price PAID for the liquors? the
answer is, that a liquor dealer cannot
40 this. If he has any Liquors left
over after the 3Qth day OF June. and
undertakes to ship them pack to the
wholesaler, in bulk, under such an
ARRANGEMENT, he certainly VIII pa
guilty. OF storing for sale and selling
Iiouors contrary TO the state law.
Again, to do this would requ re tho
hquor dealer to pay the government
the Wholesale liquor dealers tax
and that after the SOth day of June,
for the reason that q sale n bulk OF
i've gallons and over or liquors IS
sale at wholesaIe requiring the pay
ment OF such United States tax. You
CO., readily see where any liquor
dealer VIII be who under axes to 90
the thing we are discussing; he VIII
either have paid a government tax
to do a business unauthorized IN
West virginia, and therefore be sun
tact to the penalties provided by the
laws OF West Virginia, or be suolecs
tc the penalties OF the law pfoYidea
nv the Congress or the United
States for selling without having
maid the government tax.
The question has also been asked
Can a retail liquor dealer after the
Goth day OF June retain his liquors
until he can sh p them into another
state there to be sold? The answer
IS. he cannot. For him to keep
liquors under such cireu Gums, instances aIlc.ss
would be Keeping and storing them
in West Virginia for .sale-peThaps
not for sale IN West virginia, but
STORMS and Keeping them in West
VIRGINIA for sale. and this IS forbid
der by law. Let everyone who -
engaged in the liquor business,
either as a brewer, a distiller,
Wholesaler or a retailer tnderstapd
that now Is the secepted time kog
hin to BE reducing his stock ana
6sfting ready to have IFS stock 81 ease
debisted or. entirely out Of the state
81. the s6th day q June T Il Z