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Within five years, and at a total cost of only 20,000,000 kroner ($5,400,000), the entire liquor business of Sweden had been acquired and monopolized under the Bratt System...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
...more than 13 gallons of hard liquor may be bought in any one year by even the most virtuous citizen. Less than 40% of the passbook holders ask for enough to fill their quotas. Single, self-supporting women were sternly held down by Dr. Bratt to an average of a gallon a year. Bachelors must attain the age of 23 before becoming eligible for a passbook...
Since Dr. Bratt holds that food counteracts the effects of alcohol, Swedish restaurants may dispense liquor with meals after 12 noon, but not more than 2½ ounces to a patron before 3 p.m. Afterwards, it becomes possible by ordering an indefinite succession of meals, to tope an indefinite amount...
...some the achievement of Smart Ivan Bratt will seem inadequate; and it was with their view well in mind that he resigned as Sweden's "Liquor Tsar" last week. A Parliamentary report on the workings of the Bratt System is being prepared, prior to a national liquor plebiscite, and Dr. Bratt wants to be free to assist and testify before the investigators...