Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-06-28
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speech BY Hon. S. B. Qvale OF Wil1mar
Federal prohibition Director for Min.
nesota His reference to the golf
game, purely incidental, aroused the
ire Of devotees to that game. Here is
the talk in full. Read it and draw
your own conclusions:
-. The best way to enforce prohibition,
SO far as it is possible to enforce &C, is
for those engaged in it on large scale.
The fact, that the business now yields
big financial returns to those who deal
ply could be cut off at the source. the
demand would soon be greatly reduced
Most; of the moonshine peddled nova
days contains deadly poison. TO drink
it is to risk death or blindness. Many
tlrunks are experiencing partial paraly-
sis. OF the optic nerve. Complete para
lysis means complete blindness.
- It is very seldom that we pick up a
bottle of real whisky these days 1t hap
pens once in a while, but is a very rare
thing. Nearly all Of the so-called whis,
as genuine ''bottled in bond" whiskey,
lis made up Of alcohol, moonshine, wa
ter, burnt sugar or other coloring mat
ter. and favoring extracts. Even the
been in the habit of taking his regular
drinks for years and years and who
brags about. his unfailing Judgment Of
fooled nowadays Not 50 very long
ago we .raided place in a large city
in this state Where they made "10-year
the raid we picked up the books of this
concern and they showed up the manner
of making good aged" Whiskey while
would take about 500 alcohol 5O% wa
ter, mix it in barrel, add sufficient
amount Of coloring, matter to give the
If it was to be a batch of Bourbon
Whiskey' they would add the necessary
Whiskey", they would add Rye extract;
scotch" extract; if Irish Whiskey,''
nsy ~e easto a%a dS S sstr*S anf thy
BRAND of Whiskey, they would put on the
to, the kind wanted, as they had about
"Old, Crow" Camp, Nelson" Sunny
brook - Minnesota Club" Fond & Lii
lard, "Chappin & Gore" and others.
Best Judges of Liquor Fooled
g. S ONE of you, may say "Oh, that is all
bosh and they cannot pawn off such
stuff as that on the so-callSd old-timers
they did. I know that they did do so
and know that it continues to be done.
at my office, Stating that he was the
administrator. OF an estate in Minneap-
oils. He told me the name Of the de-
ceased party, a .wellknown professional
man. He stated that he had found in
the cellar of this party five large jugs
of whiskey and he asked me if would
nave the whiskey analysed. He stated
believed it must be pretty good stuff
because the deceased was a man who
= had used whiskey regularly, in fact, had
would never have anything but the pure
stuff in his possession. I asked him
70 bring me sample from each jug
The next day he brought the samples
Now, am not very much of judge of
whiskey, but it didn't take much Of a
judge to tell what kind OF whiskey that
it analysed and it proved to- be very
poor kind OF made-up whiskey. Two
samples proved to be a fraction over
q little co1oring; three samples tested
500 alcohol and the balance water and
colOring. r. 49,
When. the gentleman was Informed OF
world would have guessed that they
could have fooled him, too, and pawned
off stuff like that for good whiskey.''
=, An Auto-load of Fake Whiskey
sometime ago, we were informed that
certain party in the twin cities was
dealing in genuine whiskey and that he
the auto route. We sent out a man
under cover" to arrange for a purchase
from him OF eighteen cases of Whiskey
which was supposed to be an. auto load
He was told that we wanted only gen.
ulne' Whiskey, and no colored alcoho,
or made-up stuff. He said it was, gen.
ulne, unadulterated WhiSkey Of differen ri
Varieties that he dealt in, and nothine
else. - - - - -
We arranged to make the purchase
cases ~ Ray him $1,000 go for the
It was to be delivered and the date anG
hour hour Of Of the delivery. At the appointed
:; time o the ca. car drove up with four men i,
together With its contents, and arrested
the men. The eighteen cases, ACCORDING
to the Labels on the bottles contained
mad every bottle analyzed and there wa
not a single bottle Of genuine. whiskey
t ~ 81 IL was made-up stuff with coun
ter1eit government stamps and counter
am relating these Instances to prov,
8 ana SHOW n " that genuine whiskey i
,. ln1snty &nard to get hold of and in 90!
eases eases. o 9I thousand. the people ar,
:'5 ~ set e. {, ;.WoTza:a" over Violation.
tne law is through the regular chan
nels by the officials charged by the law
TO TO 1;a1,nr same. The. people IN faVo
Eighteenth Amendment is not enfoi,cet
ana saving that it. cannot be enforced
anar mere ms9 ilqnor IS now being sold thar
lists than before the Amendment wa.
passed. They. are terribly worried owe
this and for that reason thew desire ~,
law repealed" No one, up to iris f;;ne
mas ever claimed that the law has hea,
perfectly. enforced. j It Is Just like, IF ~
laws IN that respect. Those who viola
or break the Eighteenth Ainaad 1nent a
'laW-preakers Just the Same as If the;
Vlolated other sections or other amend
memts to the Constitution = -
Ihose who make light of the law n
.shDWa careless attitude towards ~
law encourage laW1essness and are -
lng IN destroying the very life Of tn
About the only theory or criticism ad
4 vanced against prohibition or the 1St1
80 Amendment, is the cry of .'nersona ! i;S
44erties- I'VE are not against fha 1aaa
ssout We do not want our personal lihar
tles encroached upon II that is WI, q
:they actually want, then it would h
wise for them to go back to the nrehi e
!orlc days. They might do; as Mr.. an
Mrs Suffer OF Maine did and live Ill
the cave men. Ever since the dave =
- Adam and Eve the allied 20 iherfias
nave been encroached upon. ahriiea9
II mas been done for the good Of moral
purity. health and the safety of tn
Special Privileges .Ars D,.ar,4
.,; II IS special privileges and mr.
nj nttoertles that those fault-finders wa n
ny; ne speed maniac wants speed Sref.ills
IONS ti and traffic laws abolished. heeans
.ney interfere with his liberties III
S a. ssailesman wants the s. '.blue-sky
law niM a az because It interferes vii
Ms MS nDert1es and because it Drevent
MN MN IRON from selling stock in the Dead Sc,