Show MUST HAVE HAlE AGE AGlAND AND NO NOT COLOR Otherwise Whisky Wh ky Must Be Branded Imitation tion Says Judge Humphreys Springfield Sprin eld Sept Sent 14 Whisky and other liquors must have age aee and not color or be bo labeled imitation So Sod decided d Judge J dge Humphrey In th States SLUes district court In the case caso of at o Co distillers and rectifiers of o Peoria Ill who asked a on temporary injunction against Thomas Rennick collector of ot internal revenue restrain restraining trig ing the federal authorities from enforcing enforcing ing ins a distinction shown in labels on whisky as to whether it Is pure Dure or orIn Imitation In an opinion denying the Injunction the court upholds the regulation of ot May 5 6 1908 under which the order for labels labelson on Imitation goods Is made mado and meets one of ot the arguments of ot the distillers that it has been customary to label all allgoods allgoods allgoods goods as pure Duro with a declaration crit criticising 1 the commissioner of ot internal revenue On this point the court says that the commissioner has been tardy tartly In promulgating a resolution which he ho hart had legal power to force even een before congress gave emphasis to the subject by the enactment of the food and und drugs act The decision will affect distillers and I rectifiers all over the country and nd has been eagerly awaited by manufacturers and shippers of liquor The United States attorney says not the distillers but the rectifiers have havo been making the Imitation product and placing the same upon the th market as the genuine article These products Include whisky brandy etc to which has been added a IL large per cent of oC water and then col colored ored oreti with rye or bourbon as in the tale case of or whisky essence of juniper In Inthe inthe Inthe the case of ot rum ruin and with peaches and other fruits In the case of ot brandy Henceforth under s decision of I the court such goods must be labelled 1 imitation m I |