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Show Five years ago James Ct. Blaine J made the following statement in ! reference to the liquor traffic: "'The United States today gets nearly $100,000,000 from the whiskey tax. Two dollars out of every seven that the government gov-ernment gets comes from that source. I'o you think that wrong?" This was taken up and commented comment-ed on as follows by a terse scribe of the day: Yes, we think it is wrong to license the devil to ruin the human race. Licencing Li-cencing an evil makes it legal, and there is nothing this side of Hades more potent for destruction than a legalized wrong. |