"Drink kills Russia" is what a member of the duma, the Russian legislative body, declares. The government holds the monopoly and encourages the accursed practise. The government income of last year from the sale of vodka reached more than 339 million dollars, while the wretchedness of peasant and workingman increases in leaps and bounds. The vodka (Russian whisky) is adulterated by the dealers, and sold cheap till "the amount of drunkenness in the empire is appalling." Drink is a worse foe than was Japan.