The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-13
APPLE CIDER AND SOME OTHER.

We apprehend that the traditional New Eng
land deacon must be absolved from the charge
of penuriousness in connection with his we'll
known preference for homemade hard cider
over all brands of boughten booze. He may
now be credited with great foresight in choos-
ing that which cannot be taken away from him.
One of the internal revenue collectors IN
district, who has charge OF the
prosecution Of offense under the new act OF con-
gress to enforce aridity is credited with saying
this:
Cider If made Of pure apple Juice. with no adj
ded alcohol other fortfying substance, is law
full beverage. II in the process of time 1t becomes
otherwise than non-alcoholic and does SO without
the artificial addition of alcohol, it remains law
full beverage. and any one may make IT,
This is, of course, pretty good for the deacon
and for the price of apples because 1T Will be
practically impossible to get an apple for eat
ing out of hand''if the juice of it can be allow
ed to get as hard as it likes, provided 1t does IL
all by itself in Nature way. But really we
cannot see why the apple should have this adj
vantage over the grape; and neither can the
grape growers of the Nauvoo district be brought
to visualize it, we believe. Grape juice can be-
come wine all by itself, just as apple juice be-
comes hard cider. It is not necessary to add
s.alcohol or any other fortifying substance, -
hard grape cider has less craziness and less
durability than the same state of mind produc-
ed by hard apple cider We apprehend that
the Massachusetts, district internal revenue Of
ficer's decision will not hold long, and that II
one wishes to get full of hard apple cider he
should be reasonably quick about it.
The war department is in the market with a
great variety of commodities. Machinery, en-
eines. motors, blacksmith tools, camphor and
other drugs and medicines, Photographic plates,
are but sundries culled from an extensive list.
But it is not to be forgotten that Secretary
Baker insisted on selling at extremely low
prices a great store of commodities In France,
both of foods and of clothing and other things
which would have been bought quickly and
gladly by our people at home and at prices that
would have netted the government more than
# got even with the high transportation charges
against the goods.
To stem the high cost Of living in France
the French government has put on public sale
bacon from the army food supplies sent from
the United States Prices have been fixed at
maximum of one-half current retail prices. This
would fix the price Of American bacon al
, eighteen cents per pound. Here in America
the consumer is paying from forty to nifty cents
The Americanizing of foreigners is rendered
more difficult by their colonization In our cite:
and industrial towns In some cases, however
employers can do something toward then
characterization by not assigning them to wori
|, together, by placing among them sprlnkhns
of American workingmen whose sturdy com
mon sense will offset the wild-eyed agltator
and their fantastic schemes of government.
2 If some men were as saving Of their none.
as they are of their labor they would be rolling
t, in riches.