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Show mp Hi MRS. AUGUST BELMONT, 't Famous Woman Suffragist and New B York Social Leader, Says Regula- Hl tion is the Only Practicable Solution Hi of Liquor Problem. H Mrs. Belmont was asked to tell what fl a wife, under such circumstances, r ought to be able to do. She knew. H She replied: "To close the dlsreput- M; able saloon and permit a better one flj to take its place. I say this because H. It seems to me, In tho present stage K of the liquor question, that regulation H Is the only practicable remedy.. No H matter what any one--may say, it Is go- V lng to be some time before men stop M ' drinking liquor, and in the meantime, M the places where liquor is sold should be, made as little offensive as possible. ' "Tho rich man has his club, where K ho can go and drink in decency. Why Hi ought not the poor man's saloon to be I, just as clean and just as decent, with- H out screens or secrecy to allure sim- H ply an open, orderly drinking place?" |