The sun., 1919-10-18
THIS WILL BE
B0NEDRY TOWN
AFTER OCT. %
U. S. Revenue Head Here
Says There's Not a Chance
for Booze.
VOLSTEAD BILL DOES 1T
Half a Per Cent. Is Limit and
Jail and COnfiscation the
Penalty.
VOLSTEAD BILL DOES 1T

with the help Of Daniel Porter and
few revenue agents New York will
go dry on October 26. On that date
the Volstead bill for the enforcement
of war time prohibition will become
effective, with or without the sigma
ture of President Wilson. Yesterday
Mr.. Porter summoned a few reporters
to his bureau in the Custom House.
There seems" said he, some
doubt as to who Is to enforce this law
I thought I'd invite you gentlemen
down here to see."
Mr.. Porter is about six foot two;
he weighs in the neighborhood Of two
hundred and eighty pounds; he has
the atrophied sense Of humor that
might be expected of a revenue
agent; he was the man who cleaned
up the moonshine business when our
recent warriors were in the Southern
training camps-and he remarks
that the law makes New York dry
with the coming into effect Of the
Volstead bill for the enforcement of
Porter is an expert" with the rife
and the revolver. and he has some
900 men and women under civil
service t. carry out his will.
Hence II is stated that New York
will go dry on October 26.
On October 16 the Volstead bill. duly
passed by the people of the United states
in Senate and House of Representatives
assembled. was transmittd to the White
House. Latest advices from Washing
ton indicate that the guardians of the
Presidents health will not permit him
| either to sign or to veto the bill. Ac-
| cording to the laws of the Medes and
Persians and the Constitution, 1t becomes
law after ten days.
One-half Per Cent. Limit.
Therefore. after October 25 any per-
son who trades in intoxicating liquor
defined by the act as any beverage con-
tanning one-half of per cent, of alcohol
or more-will come beneath the BLUE
bluie of Lieut.-Col Internal Revenue
Agent Daniel Porter.
| Therefore, goodby the teacup that
both cheers and inebriates. Therefore.
goodby the thing called sherry over the
bars. Therefore. goodby ais per cent
beer Therefore, as Mr.. Tosti once re-
| marked, to be repeated in all the best
canned music, "Goodby forever"
For Mr.. Lieut. Col. Daniel Porter
! knows all about II. Heretofore his agents
| of the internal revenue department have
not had due authority. But that has no,
foreclosed them from the pursuit Of In
formation. 1t may be stated that they
KNOW.
They know that in many and many
a saloon in the city OF New York a re-
quest for Straight" or highball bringi
forth the Real Kick. They know tha
in many and many of the joss houseI
of jazz and the shrines of syncopation al
order for ginger ale brings forth gingel
ale plus. They know that as long Al
saloons are open to sell 2.75 there will
be sundry per cents added to the bev
erages of patrons well and favorabl.
known.
And on October 26, IL that is the da,
the Volstead bill for the enforcement o
war time prohibition becomes effective
they will descend on the Joy places o
New York In a manner to make tn
archaic simile "a thousand OF brick
sound like the tinkle of nickel In 1918
| IT Years tn the Army.
For fortunately or unfortunately tn
Volstead bill has placed its own en-
forcement IN the hands of the Interna
Revenue Department And the Interna
Revenue Department In these parts l
ex-Lieut.-Col. Internal Revenue Agen
Daniel L. Porter. born in Staunton, Va
educated In the Virginia Military Insti
tute. having spent seventeen and a hal
I
that his two years of service fighting tn
moonshiners around the Southern train
ing camps was every much as good
contribution to making the heart OF tn
world happy or something, as was lick
ing the Germans.
"I don't tell you this as a warning.
said he yesterday. 1T expect that tn
good citizens OF the city and State OF Ne,
York, whether they are In the liquo
business or not, will aid In the enforce
ment OF this law. Whether or not the
aid the machinery of this Office Is read
to function to the full. The law will
enforced. 1t will mean that any ma
who sells a beverage containing NOR
than one-half OF per cent OF alcohc
| will be arrested and his beverage con
fiscated He will be arraigned befor
the United States Commissioner and hel
for the action of the Federal Gran
, Jury. II convicted the llquor seizeu WI
be forfeited to the United States an
legally disposed of.
In other words, the camoufaged stat
of bliss with regard to prohibition /
the Internal revenue district, which be
} gins I'D the river at Peekskill en-
4, braces the city OF New York and a
) | of Long Island, Is at an end.
I This law has teeth In It," said Nj
3 Porter yesterday. II want the law abid
: ing citizens of this Commonwealth I
1 help in its enforcement. But It's goin
: TO be enforced anyway. II is my dut
4 | to enforce the law. Neither nor IN