The High Liquor Tax

If it's criminal, the man engaged in an ought to be sent to prison. If it ain't criminal, they ought to be protected and encouraged to make all the profit they honestly can. The rain's people make a pretense that the high-licenced fee promotes temperance. It makes more in temperance. And what is bad? It makes a monopoly in dram shops. Soon the saloons will be in the hands of a vast trust and any stuff can be sold for whiskey or beer. Some of the poor liquor dealers my district have been forced to sell wood alcohol for whiskey,. Many deaths have followed. A half dozen men died in a couple of days from this kind of

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