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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

CHAPTER 21
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It makes more intemperance and, what is as bad, it makes a monopoly in dram shops.

Soon the saloons will be in the hands of a vast trust' and any stuff can be sold for whisky or beer.

It's gettin' that way already.

Some of the poor liquor dealers in my district have been forced to sell wood alcohol for whisky, and many deaths have followed.

A half-dozen men died in a couple of days from this kind of whisky which was forced down their throats by the high liquor tax.


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