The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-10-21

Recent decisions and reports from
various sources seem to have made
hazy the rights of that class Of Amer
leans who like a little wine or beer.
To clear up the numerous mistaken
readings and Interpretations Of tho
issued from time to time, Collector
OF Internal Revenue James A. Walsh
OF the Helena office has put out the
following which might serve -
guide to homo brewers and others
who contemplate connections they re-
gard % within the law:
The prohibition unit Of the bureau
Of internal revenue in response to nu-
merous inQuiriet concerning home
manufacture Of fruit juices and 60
called home BREW" has issued the
following statement:
Misunderstanding fruit Juice can be
made In the home. Intoxicating wine,
home brew and distilled spirits may
not be made.
Two hundred gallons of non-in-
toxicating fruit juice may be manu-
featured tax free by head Of family
BY registering with collector Of inter-
nal revenue.
This tax exemption provision has
been the source Of confusion. The
effect of this is not to allow the man
ufacture Of 200 gallons Of intoxicat-
Ing wine free from restrictions of the
national prohibition act, but merely
to allow the manufacture of 200 GAL
Ions Of Notwithstanding fruit juices
free Of tax.
Section / Of Title II of the national
prohibition act in effect defines the
term intoxicating liquors as meaning
all alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin,
beer. ale, porter and wine, regardless
Of alcoholic content, and all other
liquors fit for beverage purposes con-
tanning one-half of per centum or
more of alcohol by volume. Section
8 of said title provides that mo per-
son shall on or after the date when
the 18th amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States goes into
effect (January II, 1920, manufac-
ture, sell, barter, transport, import,
export, deliver, furnish or possess
any intoxicating liquor except as au-
thorfzed in this act, and all the pro-
visions of this act shall be literally
construed to the end that the use Of
Intoxicating liquor as a beverage may
be prevented The same section pro-
vides in part that Liquor for non
beverage purposes and wine for sac
ramental purposes may be manufac-
tured, purchased, sold, bartered,
transported, imported, exported, de-
livered and possessed, but only as
herein provided, and the commission
er may. upon application, issue per-
mits, therefor -" Section 20
Of said title, imposing penalties for
violations of the act, provides in part
as follows:
so The penalties provided
In this act against the manufacture
of liquor without a permit shall.
not apply to q person for manufac..
turing Misunderstanding cider and
fruit juices exclusively for use in
his home, but such cider and fruit
juices shall not be sold or delivered
except to .persons having permits
to manufacture vinegar"
In view of the foregoing provisions
Of law, on June 3; 1920, Prohibition
Monograph No. 81 was issued au-
thOrizing persons to manufacture
Notwithstanding cider and other fruit
juices exclusively for use in the home
without permit, and providing that
such Notwithstanding cider and fruit
juices are not necessarily limited to
less than one-half of l per cent of
alcohol by volume, but must be in
tOxicating in fact to be in violation
of the national prohibition act.
Such Notwithstanding fruit juices
may be made at home from home
grown fruit, or from fruit purchased
for the purpose, or one may take
fruit belonging to him to a CONNER
cial mill to have the juice pressed
therefrom. provided the juice is re-
moved to the home of the owner be-
fore it contains as much as one-half
of ! per cent of alcohol by volume.
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