NORMAN V.
KELLY
President Woodrow Wilson and
his ‘boys’ decided that America
should conserve…gasoline…coal…wheat…corn...and of course raise taxes on
everything in America .
Also increased income taxes in some case of the rich to 68%.
There was a lot of
Anti-German sentiment in America ...of
course…America
declared war on Germany etc April 6, 1917.
The Temperance jerks (Wayne B. Wheeler ) thought that was open season on Germans as
well…and decided that now would be a good time to further their idiot
cause...attack the Germans as a Patriotic ploy and take down BEER at the same
time. Most of the breweries were owned by Germans…so what a great opportunity
to enhance their stupid “Dry Cause” and hide it under the smoke screen of a
patriotic hatred of the ‘Hun.’ Good idea
huh? Well hell, it worked.
It all came about because of
the Wartime Prohibition Act…section 15, that said in order to save FOOD…the
distilling of Booze would stop…Of course beer was a target too…but decisions on
that had yet to be completed.
SEPTEMBER 8,
1917
In Peoria the distillery companies are closing
up shop. Those that were in Business on 9-8-1917 were:
l. CLARKES WOOLNERS
CORNING ATLAS GREAT WESTERN…(Globe was in Pekin , Il .)
Whiskey was $2.30 a gallon
but prices leaped.
September
8, 1917 President Wilson Orders Herbert
Hoover to close down the distilleries. All of this was Under the Prohibition
Clause of the War Time Food Control Act…the idea was to save coal…gasoline…food
products…for the war effort. He also raised taxes as high as 67% on the rich,
and taxes on many other things.
All a ruse
Prohibition jerks….Wayne B. Wheeler
and the CAUSE
The
distilleries raced like mad to produce all they could once they heard the word
in August of 1917. People hoarded and when the last fire was put out there was
an estimate that around the United States they had enough whisky to last “At
least three-years or more.”
Peoria,
Illinois lost about 1,000 men out of work…but the new factories in town would
adsorb many of those men for the Wartime and War products manufacturing.
Our
6 distilleries produced about 1/3 of all the Booze in the USA.
The
members of the Whiskey Trust two of the
distilleries had agreements with the US Government to produce Alcohol for
wartime use…so called straight alcohol…Medicinal Alcohol and denatured
alcohol…whatever the hell that was.
Denatured…alcohol…but
the government ordered 26 different kinds of Toxins to be used so that ti could
not be drunk…or drank…but of course they drank it anyway…what it really did was
kill people.
USA DISTILLERIES
America
had 600 distilleries going strong when they heard in August of 1917 that
because of the Wartime Prohibition Act they would have to be closed by
September 8, 1917. Places like Peoria…the Alcohol capital of the Worlds were
stunned by the news. The answer was to work like hell and store all the whiskey
they had…before and since the ruling. That brought on insanity and the folks
began to hoard as well.
Whiskey…NONE
in Peoria, Illinois…Bullshit that can’t happen…but it did.
It
would cost at least 10,000 men their jobs…and that did not take into account
the thousands that worked indirectly for the beer and booze people…from the
farmer to the trucker…the bartender to the
Suppliers
of the tavern…it would be a bleak…sad…anxious time…but it would all end when
the war ended…WRONG.
THE government stated that this Prohibition act
would save:
40 Million bushels of
grain
Thousands
and thousands of bushels of COAL…save gasoline…and
Other
resources…they didn’t mention the lost
of jobs…and the Millions upon millions of tax dollars the gvt would lose by not
being able to tax BOOZE…idiots.
The
men who knew said that already before the deadline was announced that there was
232,404,870 gallons of whiskey STORED in warehouses across the USA> Also how
many gallons were already stored in homes…taverns…liquor retailers and
wholesalers…Nobody knew for sure but they had a hell of a lot of it that was
for sure.
So
all of this under the auspices of
SECTION 15 of the FOOD CONTROL LAW…the Wartime Prohibition Act.
Peoria…Distilleries
could stay open for medicinal and government needs…but that was not enough
business. They would also make white
vinegar…denatured alcohol…malted milk products and other food products…also
Straight alcohol…a hell of a lot different than distilled Spirits..
So
it statred from a order from Herbert Hoover on August 10, 1917 giving roughly
30 days to Close.
Prices
rose…
THE DISTILLERIES
USED
The
distilleries bought from the farmer so much that the poor farmer had to die a
thousand deaths looking at the new law.
15 Million bushels of corn…350
bushels of coal…paid real estate taxes, state, city taxes and about 314 Million to Uncle SAM…What a bunch of idiots
thanks to the do-gooders…the religious idiot temperance jerks. Loss of jobs.
The
corn growers stood to lose 50 million dollars.
THE
NATIONAL SOUSE
This
great pasttime began to get readership when
the Wartime Prohibition Act should have ended…remember Prohibition the big
P…was coming and the WETS wanted a moratorium between the DRY period and the
Wet Period to begin…NOW…
So
on June 30-1919 it looked like they were
going to extend the DRY Period..
Remember
the wartime act ALLOWED the sale of booze…the sale…not the manufacturing of
Booze…so it looked like June 30 it would all end.
So…America
decided to have one last BOOZE fling…or that’s what the papers said…so that is
how the title National Souse Night began.
The
War ended 11-11-1918 so get rid of the
damn Wartime Prohibition Act…it wasn’t that easy because the congress had to
pass the laws to do this…if they didn’t the question was…would the wartime
prohibition act END///
The
fine was $1,000.00 plus a year in the PEN for violators...so the open taverns
etc./.stood to get arrested...so the Last big night came to Peoria , Ill.
What
happened?
Well
in Peoria the newspaper reported that it was just boring…a few “whoops and
hollers, a few serious drinkers pondering the fate of booze, and although the
bars were pretty well packed…that was pretty much the nature of the beast
anyway. Only 25 people got arrested 13 for public disorder and 12 for
being drunk…Wow.
So
the next day it was July 1, 1919 and some tavern owners went about business as
usual…Our attorney general and the US Attorney General came out with statements
that the War Prohibition Act was still the law…No more alcohol was going to be
manufactured…so the 1917 law was still in effect…so what really happened was
the price of booze went up…the order was NOT to shut down the taverns…all the
other laws of the Wartime Period were still in effect UNTIL Congress met to
reconvene and fix it or screw it up.
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