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...They would lounge around at tables and drink a quart of absinthe a day and boast about it. Finally they got where they drank their daily quart of absinthe straight, without mixing it with anything. French workmen began to copy their habits. So France made the sale of absinthe illegal???in France! French absinthe makers were permitted to continue making absinthe for export. France wasn't worked about what absinthe did to anybody except the French in France! As a matter of fact one, two or three drinks of absinthe a day never hurt anybody. Absinthe has definite medicinal properties...
...Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal???although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received large sums, since the income...