Now that the shouting and the yelling has subsided, the rosy mists which surrounded Repeal are drifting away revealing the highly unpleasant fact that liquor prices are exorbitantly high and in some cases prohibitive. Despite the unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served in a hotel dining room these prices are nearly doubled. Liquor by the individual drink is more reasonably priced, but even then it could be cut in half and still yield a profit.

The result of such highway robbery, of course, will be to make people return to the bootlegger, who will now cut his prices even more. The average college student, for example, is not, and indeed cannot, pay $1.50 for a fifth of gin, when he can buy alcohol for $4.00 a gallon, thereby making his own gin for $.40 a quart. Worse still, all efforts to make America into a wine drinking country will certainly fail dismally when such enormously high prices are levied; those who mours the hard liquor propensities of Americans should consider the fact that in France, the country which they generally set up as a model, a good vin ordinaire may be had for $.30 and a wine that is drinkable for as low as $.12 a quart. TERTIUS.