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...other Beer, Porter, Cider and Perry,? Spirituous
...Pear cider...
...Schlink in their Your Money's Worth and Dr. Wiley in his second last book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
Continued Congressman Fort: "I don't pretend to be much of a lawyer these days. . . . But this latter provision seems to me to lift cider and light wines home-made for home use out of the one-half of i % definition and to apply the test of intoxication in fact. ... If they can be lawfully made, they can be lawfully possessed in the home of the maker. Whether this language can be stretched to cover home-brew non-intoxicating in fact is another question but clearly the making of home-made light wines and ciders is not prohibited. . . . Perhaps...
...author of the National Prohibition Act, denied that there were any such loopholes in his law. But well known is the fact that the above-quoted exception was put into Mr. Volstead's act to permit the farmer, chief supporter of Prohibition, to make his wine and hard cider without Federal molestation. Recalled was the case of onetime Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted in a test case by a Baltimore jury. In New York a court case was found where a U. S. judge...