Yorkville Enquirer

Bootlegging in the United States is on the decline, with real rye whisky unobtainable and genuine Scotch sources, writes William G. Shepherd, in the current issue of Collier's Weekly. Mr. Shepherd declares the government has stopped the withdrawal of rye and bourbon, save for legitimate purposes, and that the difficulties of the bootleggers of Scotch began with the determination of President Harding in 1922 to stop them, which, he says, is being accomplished by a diplomacy that moved the rum fleet to forty miles off shore. "But," he adds, "there remains one other bootlegger, the gentleman who handles industrial alcohol. He will bring you 'gin' or 'rye' or bourbon' or even 'Scotch,' but in all likelihood his entire stock in trade, the basis of all his liquors, no matter what he calls them, is industrial alcohol. It is on this gentleman that the 'prohibition guns are being turned in 1925."