Show MAil ORDER LIQUOR HOUSES HOUSE WILL ILL CLOSE I IBy By Special News Service ST. ST LOUIS March 10 Many Many great greatman mall man order liquor concerns will suspend suspend sus sus- pend pond bu business if it the Reed bone dry bill now flOW awaiting tho the signature of oC President Wilson becomes law This was the word received today from the big wholesalers of this city and like advices are arc at at- hand from similar concerns In Cincinnati and other places supplying topers In so 80 called dry territory The new federal bill forbids shipments ship ship- ments meats of liquor Into prohibition states even whore the tile laws Jaws of these I states permit such shipments shipment Curiously Curl Curi enough the distillers principally principal l ly blame the brewers for slipping sUpping over the tho drastic measure without their knowledge There is the tho greatest greatest great great- reat est Jealousy between the makers of spirits and the makers makers makers' o of malt liquors The Tho latter Jatter accuse tho the whiskey whiskey whis whis- key and bran brandy y men of bringing on prohibition because of the excesses which indulgence In the the stronger involved The Tine brewers advocate ad vocal the prohibition of ot drinks containing con can a high alcohol per percentage and tho the encouragement of the less leas deleterious beers and artel light wines Tho The liquor men here say the brew era ers backed the Reed bill out of re re- re vonge vengo because tho whiskey gin and brandy dealers dealers' sales have increased In states that have gone dry while more bulky beverages arc are not im Inn- ported An officer hero here of or the the- Hayner Distilling Dis tilling company the lar largest mall mail order liquor house in the United States said his firm would be he forced to close its mail man order house If It the tho bill becomes becomes becomes be be- comes law Man Mall order liquor houses an of one St. St Louis distilling company said have gallons gal gal- Ions lons of or whiskey ey In stora storage e In In Kentucky Ken Ien tucky This is worth more than and must be bc sold at a sacrifice If Ie the bill goes oes Into effect A dispatch from Cincinnati says Interests there will lose loso between 10 and antI worth at of business bus busi ness a year by the Reed measure About forty Cincinnati man mall order houses will close The measure will affect aCted the cooperage cooperage cooper cooper- age glass label and other industries and cause several thousand workers In the Cincinnati district to seek seck new Kansas City Is another point which has ml millions of or dollars of ot alcoholic liquors to dry dry territory The mall mail order houses have done a abig abig abig big business In Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado since those states went dry Now NoVo this business Is to cease or orbe orbe orbe be reduced to furtive furtivo bootlegging Another curious of at the tho situation situ situ- Is tho the difficulty liquor firms are arc having ha in obtaining new fire tIre insure Incur ance Distilleries s and Uko liko establishments establish establish- ments meats In the past have hav been rc regarded as very desirable business by fire insurance in In Insurance companies but the Reed Heed act will create what is called a moral hazard which is making tho lisa underwriters underwriters under under- writers war wary |