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Show NATIONALIZING TIIK I.lol OK TH. F- i;. ; Kmwahd Hei.lamv's paper, the Xt,w I Kuliiin, is creating a marked Imprecision Imprec-ision on the third party prohibitionists by proposing to them a special effort in (he way of natiouaiiiu the entire business of manufacturiu); anil setting intoxicating liiiiors. Hi:i.lamv'o position posi-tion is that th') business in nil itk blanches should be carried on by tiic government. That is, the government hhould, in the first place, do all the manufacturing of liquors, and all other means of manufacture should be prohibited. pro-hibited. In the next place, government govern-ment ai;euts should bo exclusively authorized to sell liquors, and such ngnuts should be maintained by a stipulated stip-ulated salary, so that there would be no inducement for increased sales; and furthermore, all liquors should be .old at, a price that would U' rnnre than pir the expenses of til ) 't:, t!ltt is, it shcnld rot be a tiiouoy lua'iciuj ana-iViiiiuiit. Hy this plan fie liquors pfjvidad for the people's u i would be required to be of the purest and best quality, and iu their sulo tho popular and seductive nytftem pruvailing at pr mnt would bo pra'-lically abolished, as no naming or loaling acconunodatioris would bo pro-vidod pro-vidod by tho government. There is no doubt that, while this plan ol lir.l.l.AM v ls far from proposing the entire abolition aboli-tion of ho drink habit, as is fcoui'lt for by the prohibitionists, it nevcrtho-lcss nevcrtho-lcss promises substantial reforms ia the niMiajjoment cf tho liipmr tratlic; yet tomperauce people of the country could never bo induced to absent to a plan providing for government participation participa-tion in a business which they believe to bt essentially immoral. |