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Show LIQUOR ON THE RUN. Those who take pleasure in tho embarrassment em-barrassment ot these engaged in tho liquor tralllc will find In the New York World's summary of 1007 considerable con-siderable satisfaction. In writing "of the liquor business The World says in part: "Prohibition made great strides In tho South, reclaiming tho states of Georgia and Alabama and wlnnlug a hundred countleaof Kentucky. It was seriously proposed as a presidential Issue for the democratic party. Oklahoma Okla-homa entered tho Union with a law forbidding tho manufacture and sale of intoxicants. The Incident of the sewers of Oklahoma City flushed witli 2,300 barrels of contraband beer was sufficiently novel. Two ot the three counties of Delaware wept 'dry' at the November election. Tho bishops' excise ex-cise law was a leading Issue in the New Jersey" campaign. Chicago added a squ'are mile to its prohibition territory. terri-tory. Yesterday thousands of employes of tho Chicago & Northwestern railroad rail-road 'took the pledge' Thoconsump-tlon Thoconsump-tlon of strong liquors diminished In Great Britain. "The government of Rumania is planning drastic measures to check drunkenness. Tho new bill regulating drink in that country makes the sale ot brandy and whisky a state monopoly and gives municipalities control of saloons. sa-loons. Barkeepers become municipal employes. Bars are limited as to number and may not remain open on Sundays or saints' days or after 8 at night. Intoxication is punished by line for the first offense and by a prison term for tlio,second. Habitual drunkards drunk-ards aro registered, and barkeepers selling them liquor are subject to heavy lines " |