In the chemical factories every drug required by the Medical
Pharmacopoeia and every chemical required in the arts and manufactures
was made, but no drugs were sold except on a medical prescription, or
chemicals except to responsible parties. The voters of any district
could by a majority vote prohibit the use of any or all liquors or drugs
in the district, and on receiving official notice of the law enacted by
the district the Minister of Manufactures issued an order withdrawing
from the district any or all liquors or drugs prohibited, and any person
bringing into the district any prohibited drug or liquor, unless under a
prescription from a Government physician, was punished by six months at
hard labor within the district.

At every Government warehouse where drugs and chemicals were sold the
Government employed a competent physician, on a salary fixed by law, to
superintend their sale, and he could prescribe and the Government
furnished the medicine free to those who were sick and did not have the
money to pay for it.

Tobacco was manufactured and sold in three grades, viz., cigars,
which were sold in packages twenty cigars for a dollar, and smoking
tobacco and chewing at one dollar a package. No cigarettes were
manufactured or sold by the Government or admitted into Eurasia, as it
was recognized by all intelligent people who took a warm interest in
human progress that the use of tobacco in the form of cigarettes had an
injurious effect on the young, through the pernicious habit of inhaling
the smoke. Coffee and tea were put up in three grades at one dollar a
package, the packages weighing in proportion to grade, and sugar was
made and sold in two grades, viz., common sugar and refined. The common
was put up in twenty-five-pound sacks and sold for one dollar a sack,