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...suppress progressively within ten years the opium-smoking habit by decreasing proportionately the importations of the drug. After the tenth year, importation and production, except for medicinal and scientific needs, are to be entirely prohibited...
...well-known maxim in the publishing world that to suppress a book is to make it popular. It is much the same with a political speech. A fortnight ago, Senator Bruce, Maryland Democrat, made a speech in the Senate attacking the prospect of Government operation of Muscle Shoals because it would be an infringement of state rights, attacking the Democratic Party for cooperating with Republican insurgents in such a scheme (TIME, Jan. 12). Senator Bruce was in turn attacked by his Democratic colleagues. He held his ground and his speech is likely soon to be forgotten. Not so a speech...
...copies of the speech began to come to Senators, many from the South. They were obliged in most cases to say that copies could not be had, which was true. But such answers were not likely to appease their constituents who may have suspected that the Senators wished to suppress the document. The National Republican, organ of the Republican Party, printed the speech almost in full. It was reported that the Republicans were planning to print and distribute a million copies of the document. The result is likely to be a much greater hearing for Mr. Dial's withdrawn...
Accordingly, the Treasury Department requested Congress for $275,000 to be used to destroy an outbreak of plague among rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...
...most extraordinary comment on the situation came from Maximilian Harden, ardent Republican and fervent hater of the ex-Kaiser. Said he: "The writer is not Monarchist; but as a believer in democracy he must say that it is poor sportsmanship for a supposedly democratic nation to attempt to suppress the successful Party, however distasteful it may be. The Nationalists triumphed in May and again this month, despite all the organized powers of officials; and they are entitled to their share in the responsibilities of the new Government...