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Show PINK MONKEYS IN DANGER. World's Supply of Absinthe May Da Shut Off by Switzerland. Switzer-land. Pea green elephants, pink monkeys nnd whlto blackbirds, together with tho (lock of flmulnsoes which absinthe drinkers Insist havo roamed at will about Control pnrk, may soon becomo extinct by reason of tho action of tho Swiss government. ,-, Nmrly ihe entire, ipiantlty of abslntho ab-slntho Imported into the. United States In distilled in tho canton of Nouchatol In Switzerland. Virtually all of It that Is imported rocs to tho thrco cities of New York, Now Or-leans Or-leans and San Francisco. Because of the great evil resulting from the habitual uso of polton, thoro Is a movement on .foot in Switzerland Switzer-land to prohibit tho production of abslntho and oven to forbid its salo within tho republic. The manufacture or distillation of absinthe Is a government monopoly In Switzerland. Tho estimated rovo-nue rovo-nue to tho government Is about 1,-000,000 1,-000,000 a year. This revenue is distributed dis-tributed by tho government among tho various cantons or provinces with tho proviso that 10 per cent of It must be expended in promoting the rauso of temperance. Now prohibition Is in tho ascendancy ascend-ancy In Switzerland and Is Booking a constitutional amendment to forbl3 the distillation and sale of abslntho and to enforce absolute prohibition through tho entlro republic. Tho movement, according to Consul Qlfford at liasll, has given a groat Impetus because of the fact of an nlulntho-crnzed father In the canton of Vnud, In killing his wife and children. chil-dren. With any diminution In supply in Swltzerlan.l tho Importation to the United Stales must como from a new source. |