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Show TK.UI'KKANt'K reform has became be-came one of the great issues of the day in liusskm politics. The Tlunui has passed a radical temperance measure, which has since been the subject of exciting debates ill the Conned of the Kinpire. Temperance reform in Kusia is complicated b ! the fact tk.it the manufacture and j the sale of liquor are monopolies of the government. One-fourth of the . i rt Ve A'"V. jvvn comes from that --lMlaS..t.- t l.'l.er ,0 the source. In a rrv ' ' , minister of liuance. ;!h Car uru' i revision of the tin.'.t.cial sys'eci. am: dwelt on iiis observations. thfot'ch-out thfot'ch-out Russia, of the the , cakm.-. poverty and economic desolation that are the inevitable results ot drunkenness." |