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Show I In splto of Senator Toller's prediction predic-tion that the bill giving tho country alcohol frco of revenue for uso In tho arts and as a fuel will prove a disappointment, disap-pointment, thoro Is a general rejoicing over Its passage. As tho Now York Journal of Commerco observes, Senator Sena-tor Toller "was not tho only ono to oxprcss doubt about the beneficial results re-sults to bo derived from freeing this matorlal from tho burden of a prohibitive prohib-itive tax. This Is a matter which only experience can settle, but unless the people of this country are inferior In ontorprlso, Ingenuity, and industry to those of soveral countries of Europe, it will prove of groat benefit." Senator Sen-ator Aldrlch himself, however, who at first opposed tho bill, deprecated the fact that tho bill will not apply to tho manufacture of sulfuric ether. Ether is used In a largo number of manu factured articles that could bo much cheapened if tho alcohol bill permitted permit-ted tho uso of alcohol for ether manu-. fact uro. Somo of tho articles that, according to tho Journal of Commerce, will bo affected af-fected by tho production of freo alcohol al-cohol aro artificial silk, smokeless powder, pow-der, picture frames and moldings; coal-tar coal-tar dyes, shellacs and varnishes, furniture fur-niture and other polished wood pro HJ ducts, electric generators and motors, HJ stiff and silk hats, transparent soap, and fusil oil. All of these things HJ should, with tho advent of free alcohol, HJ bo reduced In price, If not improved in HJ HJ In Germany, tho Now Orleans Pic- Hj ayuno points out, "special lamps have HJ been mado to use alcohol, which give HJ a better light at lower cost than ker- HJ osene." Tho Picayuno adds, more- HJ H ' Hi Ifj |