Milford chronicle., 1919-12-12
HOME DISTILLERIES BARRED
$4,000 FINE AND YEARS IMPRISON.
MENT AWAIT OFFENDERS.

Home brewing and distilling has
come under the prohibition ban. No
tice last week was served by the Bu-
reau Of Internal Revenue that anyone
manufacturing in their own homes for
private consumption any sort of in
toxicating liquor will be subject TO
the penalties Of the law.
At the same time firms who have
neen advertising corn mash for the
amateur production of whiskev and
prepared packages OF hops and malt
Ior the brewing of beer are notified
I II their receipts are used they will be
subject to prosecution. The manufac-
ture OF Intoxicating liquors for private
consumption evidently is to be stopped
by the government
It was the general opinion that the
man who wanted to make beer for his
own use would not be interfered with
or even that private stills would not
be disturbed if their output was for
the private use of the distiller.
Acting under this impression some
OF the big mail order houses of the
country have ben advertising and mar
keting the ingredients from which al
coholic liquors could be produced.
Neighborhood clubs have been formed
in some States where one family
brews beer one week, another the next
and so on, in order that all will be
assured OF a continuous supply. But
under the ruling of the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau those who engage in this I
practice will be subject to 500 fine
or one year imprisonment or both. The
warning from the bureau says:
Numerous concerns are advertising
and selling formulas for making intox-
icating liquor in the home, and in
some cases are advertising and selling
packages containing recipes and the
ingredients. Prohibition
enforcement officers have been direct
ed to visit all persons, firms and cor
porations engaged in such business
and advise them that they will be sub
iect to prosecution if their formulas
ire used in the manufacture of liquor
~ the purchasers thereof.
The Acts of August 10, 1917, and No
rember 81, 1918, forbid the manufac-
ure of distilled spirits and malt and
'inous liquors for beverage purposes,
Until the conclusion of the present war
nd thereafter until the termination of
emobilization. Persons manufactur-
lg in their own homes for private
onsumption such liquors are subject
4 the penalties of these Acts and the
'ational Prihibition Act, and are liza
lie also to penalties and taxes impos-
d by Internal Revenue laws.
Two or more persons who engage
the home manufacture of intoxicat- d
lg liquors and who by conspiracy \
efrauded or attempted to defraud the I
Overnment of the tax would each be o
lbject to a fine of not more than l.
10000 or Imprisonment for one year
: both. These penalties are fixed by II
e United States Criminal Code. "
hich provides also that whoever df- u
city commits any act constituting y
offense defined in any law of the u
nited States, or aids, abets, counsels, u
induces or procures its
is a principal a.,
THE Bureau of Internal Revenue uil
Ids that persons who sell or adver- lI
e formulas and ingredients for the
lnutacture of intoxicating liquor are Di
iuencing others to violate the law, eu
d are subject therefore to prosecu- as
n under the criminal code.
The National Prohibition Act ex-
essly forbids the advertising or sale Gu
formulas and ingredients for the Gu
nufacture of intoxicating liquors eie W
er January 16, the date on which nv nv
Constitutional amendment be- m "a.
ne effective, and provides heavy ~
lalties for the Offense" -, ~