Republican farmer., 1920-01-23

i method prohibited.
 Permit manufacture at home for personal use of non-intoxicat- ing elders and fruit juices. While ''non intoxicating is not defined l Washington, Jan. 16.---Constftu- tiona1 prohibition becomes effective at midnight tonight.
 l From 12:01 a. nl.,. the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the eNportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is prohibited by l the 18th amendment to the constntu- | ton, and the United States becomes the first nation of the world to make such a provision part of it's basic law Congress has defined an intoxicating 1 liquor as any beverage containing one-half of one per cent, or more, of l alcohol.
 1 Actually, the advent of constitu-
 tional prohibition will make little difference in the daily life of the peo- 1 pie of this country, as they have been
 living under the nationwide wartime
 ban on alcoholic drinks since last
 July. There have been eager hopes i entertained by the thirsty, by distil- | quantities of wfiskey for higher Eprices, that wartime prohibition would be lifted before today in accordance with the recommendation of Presi- dent Wilson to Congress, but Congress
 refused to do so and the arid spell now
 about to begin under authority of the nations Constitution, which prohIol- tionists. declare will continue in effect
 for all time inasmuch as it could be +1o0 n i which it came into existence, will per init no opportunity for the replenish- ment of private cellars or the unload ing of investment stocks. The state of Rhode Island, however, has case | pending in the Supreme Court attack
 ing constitutional prohibition.
 Thousands of gallons of whiskey 1 remain in bonded warehouses with no l chance to be sold at prevailing high prices. The liquor can be taken out
 only for medicinal and scientific uses | with the Bureau of Internal Revenue
 exerting extreme precautions to see | that none of 1t is used in violation
 of the law. During the last two months, many owners of alcoholic
 liquors, foreseeing no opportunity for
 sale in this country, have endeavored
 to rush the surplus to other coun-
 tries Lack of shipping space pre-
 vented more than a fraction being ex-
 ported. Cuba and the Bahamas have
 received most of what was sent
 abroad. There were 70,o00,00O gal
 Ions on hand when wartime prohibit
 ton went into effect. The amount
 exported is not known but is proba- bly, less than 20,000,oo0 gallons.
 Attacks on constitutional prohibi- ! ton, began in several states, appa- | aJo- H., the reform forces. After the Su- preme Court upheld the constitution ality of wartime prohibition and the
 measures to enforce it, Wayne B.
 Wheeler, general counsel of the l Anti-Saloon League of America, an l nounced that the only question left
 on which the vets could make a fight
 was whether prohibition was @ proper
 subject for constitutional action and i whether the amendment had been
 adopted legally. He contended there
 was no doubt on the subject.
 Enforcement of constitutional pro- hibition was lodged by Congress with the Bureau of Internal Revenue
 which for years has been in close touch with distil1ing and brewing in. terests in the collection of excise
 taxes and active in running down
 "moonshiners." Evidence collected
 by the bureau will be used in prose l cutions by the Department of Jus , tice.
 Commissioner Roper has estab' lished an entirely separate division
 in the Bureau of Internal Revenue . for the enforcement of prohibition . headed by John F. Kramer of Mans, 7 field, Ohio, as prohibition commis. I cin fnY Ia Init To 1xTil have under him nine federal super.
 visors in charge of as many districts | a director in each state and a mo l bile force which can be shifted from } place to place as conditions demand MT. Roper has made plain, how 1 ever, that enforcement of proIlibi ton depends largely on local senti ment and has appealed to citizens O the United States to give their coop } eration to upholding the law of tn
 country. Federal forces, he said i would be used to reinforce local eff forts, and where any state officer fail ed in his duty, his constituents would : : be informed.
 ! ! Approximately $500, 900 in taxe :. has been collected annually on alec
 l ho1ic beverages, which now will hav |, to be obtained by the government il . l some other way.
 , l Prohibition sentiment, culninatin; , in the epoch-making amendment t
 the Constitution, has been growth!
 l steadily in this country since 1908
 ] according to records compiled by tn
 ! Board of Temperance of the Metho dist Episcopal Church. At that tim } a demand for moderation in the us 5 of ardent spirits arose, followed tel y | years later by an even broader move s ment for abstinence from arden I spirits and for moderation in the us - of malt liquors. This in turn gay
 1 way, in 1S40, to sentiment for ab
 stinence from all alcoholic bever IS ages.
 3 Agitation for abolition of the prac E. tice of licensing the sale of liquor d did not come until 1s47, resulting fou
 lyears later in the enactment of pro