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Show t THE CITIZEN 4 t j ' i i t - 'ti i - ' ; f: f fi A 5. I i i i j. i i i i i t I I 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES WAY EASY FOR THE BOOZE TRUST Liberal provisions for the booze business which the state is conducting in partnership with the extract manufacturers were made at a meeting held last Monday in the Capitol, the lion. Math- oniah Thomas being ringmaster. The extract magnates accepted the new code because it promises to extract large fortunes from lemons, oranges, pineapples, raspberries and, last but not least, the states alcohol. Let it be understood that the booze clement in extracts ceases Such was the sterterous statement of Mathoniah Thomas, today. former state chairman of the Democratic party. It was stated in the newspaper reports of the meeting that twenty extract makers were present. Worse and more of it ! Last week we stated that there were seven or eight or nine extract makers and now we find that twenty assembled at a single meeting, many, no doubt, being absent so as to take care of the trade" g tT1? Mathoniah Thomas broke it to the extract manufacturers that the sale of substitute extracts in Utah had grown to large pr portions. This was a terrible shock to the extract makers who :iavc been making only four or five thousand gallons of extracts and substitutes each week, if we count only twenty makers, but if thcr arc fifty or a hundred makers we throw up our hands in despair and refuse to count. We learn, on close inspection of the new rules, that Mr. Tli- mas was speaking figuratively when he said that the booze clement" must ceise. It was an efflorescent rhetorical climax. The meeting enthusiastically accepted the new rulings of Attorney Gc: oral Shields, and they arc excessively liberal. They will permit the rich makers to grow richer and the poor drinkers to grow drunker The makers will be allowed to continue the manufactui : of pure extracts, which contain from 80 to 95 per cent of alcohol. - |