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Show WILL DO AWAY WITH BOOTLEGGING IS CLAIM OF UTAH MANUFACTURERS Manufacturers of mail products in the Htate have addressed an open communication to members of the legislaturu In which they hot forth tho argument that the manufacture and mile of malt bev-, bev-, irages which contain a maximum of 2 per cent alcohol tend to do away with bootleggrx-, which tlwy say Infest sections of the country coun-try where "dry" laws are in effect. The pamphlet, which reached . the members of the house and the senate Saturday, goes into the H matter of the 2 per cent alcohol content and touches on every Iff phase of the situation as regards the enactment of a prohibitory IJB law. The pamphlet is an argument against the Young prohibition bill passed by the house and now under consideration by a com-Hmittec com-Hmittec of the senate. The question of drunkenness, the non-in-Stoxicnting features of 2 per cent content, the experience of for-Siigii for-Siigii countries and other points at issue are lontnilicd in the brief H for the brewers of the state. K It is argued in tho pamphlet that the 2 por cent alcohol content in malt beverages prevents drunkciiucss, and conforms to the pro- hibition plank in the democratic state platform and says that Sec- tlon 2 of the Young bill declares all malt or brewed drinks to be H intoxicating. H Utah Case Cited 'to Prove Contention. B The case of tho state against Honroid, tried in Juab county, v, herein tho slate chemist nnd physicians testified that a beverage containing 2 per cent alcohol was not intoxicating, is cited. Root beer, cider nnd other drinks which might contain a greater per- tentnge of alcohol than 2 per cent nnd which are not tegftded as intoxicating nie mentioned to prove that Section 2 of the Young Mil is arbitrary and unreasonable. B Denmark and Iceland are pointed out as two countiios which permit the manufacture of malt beverages containing 2 per cent r mote of alcohol as non-intoxicating beverages and says that Sweden follows the example of those countries. The mnnufac- turers of malt products, who are responsible for the issuance of Hthe pamphlet, assert there is no justification for definitions con-mined con-mined in the Young bill as regards malt beverages, The injuilous effect of large and small doses of alcohol, to-(.ether to-(.ether with the reason for a 2 per cent maximum content, arc an-iilyzcd an-iilyzcd and for the latter test the argument goes Into sugars and jKilids which aro apt to ferment if the alcohol content is lacking. Jin other words, tho pamphlet declares that alcohol is a preserva-Jtivc. preserva-Jtivc. It is asserted in the pamphlet that the foreign laboring men take malt leverages as a food, that foiclgu laborers do not care to Htakc their carbohydrates in tho foim of sweets as the Americans Vdo, and that the foreigners from the south of Europe take condi nnents instead. B One Man's Meat Another Man's Poison. AH The beverage may be a stimulant to the appetitos of the for-feigners for-feigners it Is claimed in the pamphlet. The manufacturers of the mVnnlt beverage asset t that alcohol as it is taken in the 2 per cent "frnnximum beverage may be the means of supplying tho enrbo-lliydrates enrbo-lliydrates which arc secuied through' the use of sweets to those to whom sweets are distasteful and declare that "what is one man's Kiient is another man's poison." iHj The nrgument made for a 2 por cent alcohol content in malt beverage is aimed nt bootleggeis. It is pointed out that "the de-ftire de-ftire for beer is not a desire for alcohol," and that in tho greater Jpart of the "dry" sections beer is taboo and high power alcoholic drinks mny be obtained since beer is too bulky to be carried and therefore is sooner detected. It is declnred that the man who for-jjBinerly for-jjBinerly drank beer now drinks whisky in "dry" territory because -he cannot get beer or a 2 per cent carbohydrate drink. 'mt if 1 |
