Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-22
THE REAL MARK TO SHOOT AT.

The taking hand OF the Ottawa Brewery or the Ottawa
Products Company as known since the country dry by
the federal authorities all right ii they have evidence OF Cheat
ing bv those in charge and steps OF this kind usually
taken unless good evidence hand but locally little time
devoted by federal people the hootc business would be more
to the point spite OF the various efforts get around the amend
men stands the manufacture OF real beer forbidden ana
drastic measures being and must be taken TO stop it. But tor
downright harm the hootch business from every angie mas peer
backed off the boards.
No one ever heard any workinsman spending hundred
dollars in day for beer for his immediate consumption
or getting of eight dollars for beer in little alter
noon session Yet this has been hooh in Ottawa and
we do not presume by any isolated ones
then consider the stuff that is given men to drink Real
beer put by the Ottawa brewery in all probability would be
pretty article beer Al any rate If would not con
tain poison which would the poor SNIP who blew
his money for and endanger his life the bargain But look at
what offered under guse booze Every day papers contain
accounts of deaths neadeaths drinking comparatively
small quantities OF the Any who Is dSrepuabe enough
sell the stuff has little honor have much regard for what
he sells He for the money and as nc criminal a. "
he sells in defiance Of the law and IS in measure protected by
his victim lie is willing take any chances. Having repon
sbliy wiat may become Of his victim he sells him rank
poison readily good whisky his only care being 70 see ha
he don't die the premises But pesning the dealer
has scrap and honestly give his Customers
real whisky he cannot know what he selling h Recent arrests
Chicago by federal agents disclosed the TACT thagrgcd govern
stamps such used seal bottles OF government inspect
ed whisky were being shipped into that wholesale quantities
and stamps amounting millions Of dollars taken in one
raid Along with them fac smile labels Of standard brands
whisky which had been widely advertised and well known
before the eighteenth amendment effect The process
(and isl take bottles of the WeknoWn styles fill them with
old kind Of stuff and then give them iu set Of labels including
the government stamp such would have adorned them when the
sale legitimate This connection sold individuals
much dealers and shown that OF the reliable
houses selling So the wise guy who demands the old label
and the government stamp parts with his seventy
dollar drink better off than the poor sucker who drinks
whatever offered him and asks questions whether
wood alcohol whisky Just plain hooch that has been aged ten
minutes in the still
The effects OF the kind whisky now being sold apparent
to any observing drnker formerly got his and except
in comparatively instances of the harm done him
self. drink Ct the stuff being Sold criminal records
show frequently plain soak into aving maniac quarrel
and ready for almost any drinking in the old
days might look little tough times but if he drinks the same
he did then he has hard drawn look that stamps
him Enthusiastically,
the federal authorities reduce crime hooh is the
stuff go after from point Of view Close the cheating
breweres but devote the big energy ceng and closing
the better the job will be