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system,
and
its
consequences,
would
at
once
be
raised
;
for,
as
the
respectable
Wine
Merchant,
who
depends
more
on
the
quality
of
his
article,
than
on
any
high
sounding
pretensions,
would
then
have
as
customers
for
Spirits,
such
of
his
connection
as,
through
necessity
(from
their
being
con-
sumers
of
quantities
under
two
gallons),
are
now
obliged
to
resort
to
the
Gin-shops,
and
the
chance
of
the
quality
of
his
goods
bringing
to
him
many
others,
who
have
found
out
the
nature
of
the
trash
they
have
been
used
to
purchase,
it
would
at
once,
create
a
competition
of
quality,
instead
of
price
;
which
would
soon
reduce
the
cheap
placarders
and
advertisers
of
Spirits,
to
be
as
few
in
number,
as
there
are
now
of
cheap
wine
venders
who
are
not
Gin-shop-keepers.
The
Public
would
be
enabled
to
purchase
a
bottle,
half-dozen,
or
dozen,
as
their
convenience
suited,
of
those
whose
livelihood
(as
they
do
not
pretend
to
sell
at
less
than
cost
price)
depends
on
their
disposing
solely,
of
that
which
is
of
good
qua-
lity
;
nor
would
the
Dealers,
thus
placed
on
a
fair
level
with
Gin-shop-keepers,
have
that
class
for
customers,
who
are
dram-drinkers
(and
who
pay
but
little
attention,
to
what
they
pour
down
their
throats,
so
long,
as their
palates
are
satisfied)
to
render
such
Dealers
at
all
indifferent
as to
whether
the
description
of
what
they
vend
be
good
or
bad.
The
proposed
alteration,
would
not
afford
them
any
increased
facilities
for
adulteration,
that
might
not