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Show WHISKEY IS NOT KNOCKED OUT. Federal legislation against John Barleycorn will not prove tho death of "John," is the opinion of L. H. Leech, a special correspondent in Washington, Washing-ton, who sees in tho law lately passed nothing moro than tho fixing of a high profit for the distillers. He presents this view: Aunougn me senaio nas passed a resolution for a dry constitutional amendment, that must go to tho house, and then 36 statos must assent to it John's friends are confident they can hold at least 13 commonwealths common-wealths fast for booze for many years to come. Manufacture of whiskey or distilled liquors Is prohibited for the period of the war but tho practical effect of this Is to enable the whiskoy trust to raise prices to thrco or four times their normal level. The trust has enough en-ough whiskey to supply boozo consumers con-sumers for three years. Distillers Securities Se-curities stock rules higher on 'change than over before The big distillers will not worry about not being able to manufacture drinking whiskoy during tho war. Their plants will be kept going at full spoed to make alcohol for explosives. Tho same thing that puts the kick in grog puts tho kick In smokeless powder. pow-der. Industrial alcohol corporation (munitions (mu-nitions branch of tho whiskoy trust) has just declared a dividend of 16 per cent. Whiskey is being withdrawn from government bonded warehouses at the jrate of over 1,000,000 gallons per day. While tho president Is authorized to commandeer whiskey in bond and to redistill It for munitions, If this is necessary to savo foodstuffs which would otherwise bo made into alcohol for munitions purposes, thero Is llttlo probability that tho president will seize this stuff. Alcohol for munitions can be made from corn at 35 (jents por gallon. To redistill whiskey Into Industrial alcohol, and to pay its owners, own-ers, as provided by law, would cost tho government around 1.20 a gallon, and the government would lose $2.20 in taxes on each gallon seized. |